Doris Ferleger

BIO: Doris Ferleger, winner of the New Letters Poetry Prize, Robert Fraser Poetry Prize, and the AROHO Creative Non Fiction Prize, among others, is the author of four volumes of poetry, Big Silences in a Year of Rain, (finalist for the Alice James Books Beatrice Hawley Award), As the Moon Has Breath, When You Become Snow and Leavened. Her work has been published in numerous journals including Cimarron Review, South Carolina Review. Delmarva Review, Poet Lore, The New Guard, and the L.A. Review. Aliki Barnestone writes: Ferleger’s memorable poems keep singing with their insistent beauty. Ferleger holds an MFA in Poetry and a Ph.D. in psychology and maintains a mindfulness based therapy practice via tele-health.

Big Silences in a Year of Rain, published by Main Street Rag, As the Moon Has Breath published by Main Street Rag, Leavened published by Mayapple, When You Become Snow, When You Become Snow published by Finishing Line. Books also available from these sites.