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Member in the Spotlight
Harrie Alley
Harrie Alley taught writing and art in valley schools before retiring to an oak grove—where unicorns and dragons abide—in the California gold rush foothills. She loved words early, wrote poems before kindergarden, and in graduate school studied at the Iowa City Writers Workshop. A life-long poet, she discovered art in London’s National Gallery. Making art became a second passion.
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When her poems received rejections as too long for publication, SJVW friends suggested revising them as prose. She was intrigued. “About this prose,” she said. “I can write characters, but how does one come up with a plot?” A third passion introduced itself. Many questions and critique sessions later an almost-finished paranormal fantasy dragon novel has struggled into being. A sequel nips at its heels, yammering to be set to paper.
Meanwhile, Harrie Alley’s poetry and prose appear in Vision and Verse and other magazines and anthologies.
