Michele Pizarro Harman

Poet

Author's Bio

With undergraduate and graduate degrees in English Literature and Creative Writing, Poetry, from UCLA & UF, I have poems published (Michele Pizarro & Michele Pizarro Harman) in such literary journals and online venues as Quarterly West, The Antioch Review, Midwest Quarterly, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, Sycamore Review, Puerto del Sol, Scablands Books: Lilac City Fairy Tales, Ekphrasis, Commonline Journal, Hoot and Connotation Press (publication includes an interview).

My chapbooks and full-length manuscript have been finalists and semi-finalists in The Walt Whitman Poetry Competition, The National Poetry Series, Finishing Line Press, The BOAAT Press Chapbook competition, and The Concrete Wolf Chapbook Competition. Individual poems have been long-listed and short-listed for The Fish Publishing Poetry Prize, including during the current year, 2022.

I may also be found at: https://michelepizarroharman.blog/. A poem illustration for a fellow poet may also be found at: https://www.berfrois.com/2015/09/the-sta....

I currently teach English at my high school alma mater, the school from which both of our youngest children graduated/will graduate as well.

Publications & Prizes

Anthology:
Weird Sisters (Scablands Books, 2017)
Journals: ,
Midwest Quarterly
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Puerto del Sol
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Sycamore Review

Personal Favorites

Favorite authors: 
James Tate, Sylvia Plath, Sabrina Orah Mark, Anna Akhmatova, Virginia Woolf, William Shakespeare, William Faulkner, Elizabeth Bishop, Billy Collins, Seamus Heaney
What I'm reading now: 
Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath by Heather Clark, Laura Jennings, et al., Three-Martini Afternoons at the Ritz: The Rebellion of Sylvia Plath & Anne Sexton by by Gail Crowther, Imani Jade Powers, et al.

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Identifies as: 
American
Prefers to work with: 
Women
Fluent in: 
English
Born in: 
Fairborn, OH
Ohio
Raised in: 
Atwater, CA
California
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Last update: Jul 10, 2022