Fourth Book in the Southern Swallow Series finds the Academician Li K'ai-men in exile on Hai-nan Island. China has a new invasion threat. A showdown between ingenuity and technology explodes as the Sung Dynasty tries to preserve itself.
The award-winning author of Finding the Raven, a historical novel based in 1904 St. Louis against the background of the World's Fair.
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My background is in poetry, and in Finding the Raven I've called on all the skills I learned about poetic imagery.
Birth Place
Evanston, IL United States
Accomplishments
-Featured poet Ashvemegh Journal, June, 2016
-Featured poet (30 pages of interview including 20 poems) for the Spring
2014 issue of The Bitter Oleander
-Won the Maria W. Faust Sonnet Contest in the Best Sonnet category, 2014
-Received the Library of Poetry Book Award for 2012 for the book Painting
the Egret's Echo
-Frances Locke Memorial Poetry Award for 2010 for the poem "Two Ghosts.
-A poem entitled "Letting Go" was nominated for an Illinois Arts Council award by Eureka Literary Magazine.
-First place in the free verse category of the 2013 Illinois State Poetry
Society contest for the poem "Under an Electron Microscope."
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