Roxanne Halpine Ward graduated from the MFA program at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and is a past attendee of the Bucknell Seminar for Younger Poets. Her poetry has appeared in Georgia Review, Greensboro Review, and The Sow's Ear Poetry Review, among others, and her chapbook, This Electric Glow, is available from Seven Kitchens Press.
Roxanne is an editor with nearly 20 years of experience working with different types of prose, as well as an avid reader and book reviewer. She lives and works near Philadelphia.
Roxanne is also a registered yoga teacher - to learn more, visit her yoga website at http://roxdoesyoga.com.
Roxanne is an editor with nearly 20 years of experience working with different types of prose, as well as an avid reader and book reviewer. She lives and works near Philadelphia.
Roxanne is also a registered yoga teacher - to learn more, visit her yoga website at http://roxdoesyoga.com.
Publication News
November 2021: Three poems appear in Hole In The Head Review! And an additional two poems are now live on Sweet: A Literary Confection (there's even audio!).
May 2021: Two of my poems appear in issue 14 of Aji Magazine!
June 2020: My poem "The Winter" appears in the Boned 2019 Annual. All profits go to the Restaurant Employee Rescue Fund. Click here to purchase!
January 2020: My poem The Medical Editor Classifies Her Yard received an honorable mention in the Nature Narratives Short Editions Writing Contest Juried Awards. The contest was sponsored by Penn State University Libraries, Penn State Brandywine Sustainovation Team, and the Tyler Arboretum.
November 2019: My poem "The Winter" appears in Boned.
July 2018: My poem "The Medical Editor on Art" appears in Georgia Review.
Fall 2017: My poem “The Medical Editor and the Lactation Room” appears in Bellevue Literary Review.
April 2016: My poem "The Medical Editor Practices Selective Reading" appears in the Winter 2016 issue of The Sow's Ear Poetry Review.
May 2021: Two of my poems appear in issue 14 of Aji Magazine!
June 2020: My poem "The Winter" appears in the Boned 2019 Annual. All profits go to the Restaurant Employee Rescue Fund. Click here to purchase!
January 2020: My poem The Medical Editor Classifies Her Yard received an honorable mention in the Nature Narratives Short Editions Writing Contest Juried Awards. The contest was sponsored by Penn State University Libraries, Penn State Brandywine Sustainovation Team, and the Tyler Arboretum.
November 2019: My poem "The Winter" appears in Boned.
July 2018: My poem "The Medical Editor on Art" appears in Georgia Review.
Fall 2017: My poem “The Medical Editor and the Lactation Room” appears in Bellevue Literary Review.
April 2016: My poem "The Medical Editor Practices Selective Reading" appears in the Winter 2016 issue of The Sow's Ear Poetry Review.
Chapbook
Roxanne's first poetry chapbook, This Electric Glow, is available from Seven Kitchens Press. This chapbook is volume 2:2 in the Seven Kitchens Press Editor's Series and co-winner of the 2011 Editor's Prize.
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