My journey back to poetry….

As a teenager I wrote poetry and was published. Then I grew up and lost the plot for nearly 40 years. After three kids, 27 moves, a successful business career, failed marriages and one that is working out wonderfully, I started writing poetry again in 2016. 

It’s been a whirlwind since—my most recent full-length collection, An Insomniac’s Slumber Party with Marilyn Monroe which won the 2020 [PANK] Books Poetry Prize and was published June, 2021. It was re-issued as Marilyn: Essays & Poems in 2022. My first full-length poetry collection, Give a Girl Chaos ({ee what she can do} was published March 2019 by C&R Press. My work has appeared or is forthcoming in numerous journals including Agni, Beloit Poetry Review, Blackbird, Copper Nickel, Cortland Review, Missouri Review, december, Financial Times of London, Greensboro Review, Nimrod, Pedestal, Penn Review, Pleaides, Plume, Poetry Northwest, Rattle, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, Yemassee Journal and The Slowdown, in several anthologies, as a film, in a political pamphlet Body Politic (Mount Analogue Press, 2017) and in three chapbooks: Finding My Way Home (Finishing Line Press, 2018), and BITE MARKS (winner of the 2020 Comstock Review Chapbook Prize, April 2021) and Once a Diva (dancing girl press, 2021).

I'm thrilled to have won or be shortlisted for over two dozen prizes including the Jeffrey E. Smith Editor’s Prize, International Literary Awards Rita Dove Award in Poetry, Red Wheelbarrow Prize, The Wheelbarrow Prize, Eric Hoffer Book Award, New Millennium Poetry Prize, Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry, Knightville Poetry Prize, Frontier Open Prize, Mississippi Review Poetry Prize, and Patricia Dobler Poetry Award and a multiple nominee for the Pushcart Prize, Best New Poets and Best of Net.

I received my Master's in Fine Arts in Poetry at New York University in 2020 and am honored to serve as Executive Editor of the prestigious The Adroit Journal .

Thank you for reading and sharing in my writing.     

Heidi Seaborn