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BREAKING OUT OF THE COCOON
by LISA RHODES-RYABCHICH
$19.99 Full-length, paper
978-1-64662-527-7
2021
Lisa Rhodes-Ryabchich is the proud single-mother of a special needs teenager and lives in Piermont, N.Y. She teaches poetry at Westchester Community College and has also taught a memoir, fiction, poetry writing class at Piermont Library and elsewhere. She performs her poetry throughout the United States and has two poetry chapbooks: We Are Beautiful Like Snowflakes (2016) and Opening the Black Ovule Gate (2018) both published with http://www.finishinglinepress.com Recently her first full-length poetry manuscript Peripeteia was published by Cyberwit.net and forthcoming in 2021 another full-length poetry collection will be published entitled How You Get to There. Her poetry blog and performance schedule is: http://www.lisarhodesryabchichpoetryblog.wordpress.com She has a MFA in Poetry from Sarah Lawrence College, a B.A. in Communications from St. Thomas Aquinas College in Sparkill, N.Y., a Computer Science Certificate in Business Applications from SUNY Purchase in Purchase, N.Y., a B.S. in Journalism from Mercy College in Dobbs Ferry, N.Y., a Television News Production Certificate from New York University in Manhattan, N.Y., and a B.A. in Speech Pathology and Audiology from Lehman College in the Bronx, N.Y. She was a recipient of a 2016 scholarship with Martha’s Vineyard Creative Writing Center. She is a reader for Empire Jones Great Press.
Furthermore, Lisa was a mentor for Pen America’s Prison Writing Program, which helped prisoners reach their potential, promoted healing and rehabilitation.
Finally, her short story “Retribution On Cash Street” was published by Notyourmothersbreastmilk.com and her poems have been published by Artemis Journal, Dash Literary Journal, Chaffey Review, Prachya Review, Nothing Substantial, The Writers Cafe Magazine, Madness Muse Press Destigmatized Anthology, 2019 Wordfest Anthology, Medical Literary Messenger, http://www.moonmagazine.org., http://www.praxismagonline.com, Gather Round: A Collaboration of Cave Canem Workshop and Retreat Poets, Obsidian III, Journal of Poetry Therapy, Footsteps, AIM, Left Jab, Poetry Motel, poemhunter.com, Peaceful Poetry to Love Your Societal Consciousness, Ancient Pathways, and elsewhere. Her first YA manuscript “You Don’t Have to Tell Me I’m Innocent” was recently finished.
Her published articles are:
- Rhodes, L. (2011). Poetry writing as a healing method in coping with a special needs child: A narrative perspective. Journal of Poetry Therapy: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Practice, Theory, Research and Education,V 24, n 2p.117-125 Sum
- Rhodes, L. (2002). Poetry and a prison writing program: A mentor’s narrative report. Journal of Poetry Therapy, v15 n3 p163-68 Spr
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