A love of literature from primary school through college, some dabbling in short story writing and in the year 2000, an inspiration to begin writing poetry. Main influences are simply life's experiences and anyone whose work I appreciate reading and who inpires me to write as well.

College graduate, cum laude with certificates or mentions for wins in contests sponsored mainly by "Poets at Work," "Bell's Letters," magickalkingdom.com and Shadowpoetry.com. Also publication within the magazines mentioned and in three books put out by Shadowpoetry.com, the first being Shadow Ink's contest #1 chapbook, the second, "Friendship Garden," a chapbook containing poems of mine and of my friend Floria Kelderhouse, and finally, a chapter within Shadowpoetry's volume 3 of selected poets.

The Shadowpoetry book volume 3 will be for sale very soon at Shadowpoetry.com and also from Infinity Publishing (BuyBooksontheweb.com) and listed in Ingram Database, ISBN 0741 066 83. I haven't gotten the book yet, but I believe its title is "Fading Into the Shadows"

Shadowpoetry.com
Many of my poems can be viewed in the poetry community established here. I am Sonneteer55 living in the neighborhood of Sonneteer Creek. This is a great place for poets to show their work. My first place poem in the the first contest chapbook Shadow Ink can also be seen under contest listing and that chapbook can be purchased there as well.

magickalkingdom.com
A very long Bio on me is at this website's bio pages. Also I have some poems there on the winner's page.