About

Here's the resume stuff. After earning a degree in English and communication with a minor in journalism, the few poems I slipped into my journalistic portfolio actually nabbed me my first professional writing job -- as a scriptwriter. After a long career as a journalist, public relations executive, educator, and small business owner, I rededicated myself to poetry. More than 60 of my poems have been published in a variety of literary journals and anthologies including:  Bramble, McNeese Review, Midwest Quarterly, Midwest Prairie Review, Reed, Sport Literate, The Under Review and Verse Wisconsin. I've read my poems in Australia, Boston, New York, Oregon, Vermont, and Wisconsin. Awards include the following:

*   First place in the 2024 Wisconsin Fellowship of Poetry Muse Contest 
*   A Pushcart Prize nomination
*   Honorable Mention with the Council of Wisconsin Writers' 2022 Lorine Niedecker Poetry Award.
*  Second place in the Wisconsin Fellowship of Poetry Triad Contest.
*  First prize at the Writers' Institute of the University of Wisconsin Madison
*  Honorable mentions from the Wisconsin Writers Association Jade Ring Contest.

I'm an active member of the Wisconsin Fellowship of Poetry and volunteer in several capacities including helping to organize annual conferences, guest edit our literary publication (the next one's focused on SPORTS!) and select scholarship recipients. In addition, I'm a reviewer for Awakenings Review, an award-winning literary magazine which publishes work by people who have experience with mental illness. 

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Selected works on-line

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http://www.versewisconsin.org/Issue112/poems/keller.html

http://www.booksbywomen.org/whenwomenwaken/author/lorakeller/

http://lanternjournal.org/2013/03/please-stand-back/

ttp://original-writer.com/gettingpoetrypublished56lora.html

http://www.halfwaydownthestairs.net/index.php?action=view&id=411

http://www.thenewpoet.com/2013/05/the-new-poet-5.html

http://www.blastfurnacepress.com/2012/11/blast-furnace-volume-2-issue-3.html

http://www.med-lit.vcu.edu/MLM2.2.pdf