Lorraine Jeffery

Lorraine Jeffery delights in her closeup view of the Utah mountains after spending years managing public libraries. She has lived and worked in Texas, Ohio, Georgia, Oregon and Utah. She has won poetry prizes in state and national contests and published over one hundred poems  in various journals and anthologies, including Clockhouse , Kindred, Calliope, Ibbetson Street, Rockhurst Review, Naugatuck River Review, Orchard Press, Canary, Two Hawks, Halcyon, Healing Muse, Regal Press and Bacopa Press.   Her first book is titled When the Universe Brings Us Back, 2022, and her chapbook titled Tethers , by Kelsay Books, will be forthcoming. She and her husband are the parents of ten children - eight adopted and two biological.