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Angela Hoffman’s poetry collections include Resurrection Lily and Olly Olly Oxen Free (Kelsay Books). With her retirement from teaching and the pandemic coinciding, she took to writing poetry. She placed third in the WFOP Kay Saunders Memorial Emerging Poet in 2022 and was a runner-up in the 2023 Wisconsin Sijo competition. Her poems have been published in Agape Review, Amethyst Review, As Surely As the Sun, Blue Heron Review, Braided Way, Bramble, Cosmic Daffodil Journal, Lothlorien Poetry Journal, Moss Piglet, Muleskinner Journal, Of Rust and Glass, One Art, Poetica Review, Silver Birch Press, Solitary Plover, Sparks of Calliope, The Enchanted Circle Newsletter, The Orchards Poetry Journal, The Poet Magazine, Verse-Virtual, Visual Verse, Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets’ Museletter and Calendar, Whispers and Echoes, Wilda Morris’s Poetry Challenge, Writing In A Woman’s Voice, and Your Daily Poem. Her poems have also appeared in Amethyst Review Poetry Anthology: All Shall Be Well and The Poet Anthology: Our Changing Earth. She writes a poem a day. Angela lives in rural Wisconsin.

Paperback: 60 pages
Publisher: Kelsay Books (March 14, 2024)