Authors’ and Artists’ Biographies
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's eighth collection, Birds of Sorrow and Joy: New and Selected Poems, 1970-2000, was published by Marsh Hawk Press in April 2003. Her recent work has appeared in Bridges, Marlboro Review, Runes, George Washington Review, Harrisburg Review, Home Planet News, Journal of NJ Poets, Poetry New York, One Trick Pony, and US 1. She teaches in the NJ State Council on the Arts/Writers-in-the-Schools programs. As a "Dodge Poet," she is a visiting artist in schools and festivals, and has been a facilitator for the "Clearing the Spring, Tending the Fountain" series for teachers.
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’ poems have appeared in The Atlantic, Christian Science Monitor, The London Review of Books, London Magazine, Georgia Review, Prairie Schooner, and elsewhere. The latest of her eight collections is Desire Lines, New and Selected Poems (BOA, 2004). In addition to poetry, Ms. Haskins has written Not Feathers Yet: A Beginner’s Guide to the Poetic Life (Backwaters Press, 2007), and Solutions Beginning with A, fables about women, images by Maggie Taylor (Modernbook, 2007). Her awards include two NEA fellowships, narrative poetry prizes from New England Review and Southern Review, the Iowa Poetry Prize, and the Emily Dickinson Prize from PSA. She has been teaching privately for over twenty years, and is currently on the faculty of the low residency MFA program at Pacific Lutheran University.
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works as a professional artist in her studio in Chagrin Falls, OH. She teaches drawing and design and watercolor at the Valley Art Center and is an active member of the Hudson Society of Artists and the Valley Painters. She has exhibited and won awards in shows with the Georgia Watercolor Society, the Scottsdale Art League, the Midwest Watercolor Society and has held several one person shows. She is represented by the Watson Gallery in Atlanta and the Gallery One in Mentor, OH. Her watercolors and sketches have been incorporated in private and corporate collections including The Marriott Corp., Coca-Cola Co., The Cleveland Clinic and in England.
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holds an MFA from the University of Arizona and a doctorate from the University of Southern Mississippi's Center for writers. Her story collection, Rattlesnakes and the Moon, was a 2007 finalist for the GS Sharat Chandra Prize. In the last two years, her work has been nominated six times for the Pushcart Prize, and appears in The Southern Review, Shenandoah, Puerto del Sol and numerous other magazines. Her nonfiction piece, "The House in Simi Valley," which first appeared in storySouth, has been selected for the forthcoming anthology, Online Writing: The Best of The First Ten Years. Among the numerous awards she has won for her fiction are a $5000 Literary Arts Fellowship from the Mississippi Arts Commission, a Henfield Transatlantic Review Award, and a Frank Waters Fiction fellowship. She has taught fiction at the University of Arizona, The University of Southern Mississippi, James Madison University, and Ole Miss as well as in communities throughout the country. Her students have gone on to win such awards as the Mary McCarthy and O' Henry. Currently she teaches creative writing and lit at Clemson University and lives in Greenville, SC with her dog Catfish, two calicos and the curator of the Greenville Zoo. She welcomes you to the nurturing writing haven of Chautauqua.
The youngest but tallest of three creative sisters. Born to Henry and Jeanne, deceased, but very much with us. There isn’t a day that goes by that I don’t think of them and want to show them my latest creation, be it writing or a painting.
I am a lover of curiosity and thrive on watching how the world works, voicing my opinion, then often changing it, sharing what I have learned along my journey with others, I love to make people laugh and not feel alone.
My technical skills include having small enough hands to be the one digs chicken bones out of the garbage disposal, being a dynamite navigator while traveling, and juggling the birthday and holiday schedules for a husband, four grown children and four grandchildren while carving out a part of the world that is my own ... writing and painting.
On the real technical side, I have been a professional writer for over thirteen years. My work has been published in the Chicago Tribune, the Christian Science Monitor, Poets and Writers, the Writer, Cleveland Plain Dealer Sunday Magazine, Family Circle, Baltimore Sun, Cincinnati Post, Notre Dame Magazine, Sasee Magazine, Science and Spirituality Magazine, Cincinnati Magazine, among many others.
My chapbook of poetry called Strip Searched was published in 2007 by Pudding House. Cleaning Closets, my novel, was published in September 2007 by Dialogue Publishing.
I have taught writing workshops in Ireland, Arizona, South Carolina, Ohio. My greatest writing joy at this part of my career is working with other writers to teach them what I have learned.