Diane Sahms 

Diane Sahms is the author of eight poetry collections, latest, Blues, Prayers, & Pagan Chants and has been awarded first place in Judith Stark’s Poetry Contest and in Partisan Press’s Working People’s Poetry Contest. She is a recipient of a poetry grant from AEVentures Foundation and has been published in North American Review, Northern Virginia Review, Brushfire Literature & Arts Journal, Valley Voices, Sequestrum Journal of Literature & Arts, Chiron Review, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Pennsylvania Literary Journal, The New Verse News & elsewhere. B.S. / Master’s Credits in Education toward two Teaching Certifications, she taught high school English and has recently retired as a Contract Specialist with the U.S. government and is currently the Poetry Editor of an online magazine, North of Oxford.  http://www.dianesahms-guarnieri.com/ https://dianesahmsguarnieri.wordpress.com