Gloria J. Wimberley

Pushcart Prize Nominee Gloria J. (McGowan) Wimberley, M.A., having lived in Miami, Washington, DC, and other cosmopolitan locales for decades, now resides with her husband & children in the woodsy warmth of her West Virginia hometown in Appalachia. A poet, Middle Island Press prose editor (The Rock of Spells, et al.), and educator at Eastern Gateway Community College, her work has been published in both print and online literary magazines in the U.S. and abroad. Edgar and Lenore's Publishing House of Los Angeles, California published *Dialect of Dahlias* her 100+ page, unique and sublime poetry collection, which was #1 in the Poetry/Women Authors category on Amazon from May-August 2012. Her work currently appears in Mapping Me: A Landscape of Women's Stories (Maymona Productions of New Zealand) and other print books. Her social media profiles appear on LINKEDIN, Viadeo, Google+, Goodreads, et al.