Penny Harter

Penny Harter is widely published in anthologies and journals. Her most recent book is The Night Marsh. She has won three poetry fellowships from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and an award from the Poetry Society of America. (41 words)

Penny Harter’s poems are widely published in anthologies and journals. Her most recent book is The Night Marsh. She has won three poetry fellowships from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and an award from the Poetry Society of America. The Beastie Book, her alphabestiary for children, will debut in November, 2009. (54 words)

Penny Harter’s recent books include The Night Marsh, Along River Road, Lizard Light: Poems From the Earth, and Buried in the Sky. The Beastie Book, her alphabestiary for children, will debut in November 2009. Widely published, she has won three poetry fellowships from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, The Mary Carolyn Davies Award from the Poetry Society of America, and the William O. Douglas Nature Writing Award. She is a teaching poet for the New Jersey Writers Project of the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. (72 words)

Penny Harter's most recent collections are The Night Marsh (2008), Along River Road, Buried in the Sky, and Lizard Light: Poems From the Earth. The Beastie Book, her alphabestiary for children, will debut in November, 2009. Her work appears in anthologies and journals worldwide, and in Contemporary Authors. She has won fellowships and awards from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, the Dodge Foundation, and the Poetry Society of America, and the William O. Douglas Nature Writing Award. She is a teaching poet for the New Jersey Writers Project of the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. For more information, please visit http://www.2hweb.net/penhart.
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Penny Harter is published widely in journals and anthologies. Her recent books include The Night Marsh (2008), Along River Road, Lizard Light: Poems From the Earth, and Buried in the Sky. The Beastie Book, her alphabestiary for children, will debut in November, 2009.She has won three fellowships from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, as well as an award from the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, the Mary Carolyn Davies Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America, and the William O. Douglas Nature Writing Award. Since her husband William J. (Bill) Higginsons' death in October, 2008, she has moved to Mays Landing to be closer to her daughter and family. She continues to visit schools for the New Jersey Writers Project of the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. For more information, please visit http://www.2hweb.net/penhart. (104 words)

Penny Harter is published widely in journals and anthologies, and her literary autobiography appears as an extended essay in Contemporary Authors. Her most recent books include The Night Marsh, Along River Road, Lizard Light: Poems From the Earth, and Buried in the Sky. Her illustrated alphabestiary, The Beastie Book, will be out in November, 2009 from Shenanigan Books. She has won three poetry fellowships from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, as well as awards from the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, the Poetry Society of America, and the first William O. Douglas Nature Writing Award for her work in the anthology American Nature Writing 2002. She is a teaching poet for the New Jersey Writers Project of the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. (124 words)

Penny Harter is published widely in journals and anthologies, and her literary autobiography appears as an extended essay in Contemporary Authors. Her poems have recently appeared in Contemporary American Voices, Lips, Qarrtsiluni, Tiferet, Sea Stories, U.S. 1 Worksheets, The Valparaiso Review, and Umbrella. Recent books include The Night Marsh (2008), Along River Road, Lizard Light: Poems From the Earth, and Buried in the Sky, and her illustrated alphabestiary for children, The Beastie Book, will be published in November, 2009 by Shenanigan Books. She has won three poetry fellowships from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, as well as awards from the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, the Mary Carolyn Davies Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America, and the first William O. Douglas Nature Writing Award for her work in the anthology American Nature Writing 2002. Since her husband William J. (Bill) Higginsons' death in October, 2008, she has moved to Mays Landing to be closer to her daughter and family. She continues to visit schools for the New Jersey Writers Project of the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. For more information, please visit her web site at http://www.2hweb.net/penhart. (171 words)