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Sara M. Robinson, founder of the Lonesome Mountain Pro(s)e Writers’ Workshop, and former Instructor Contemporary American Poets at UVA-OLLI, was poetry columnist for Southern Writers Magazine. She served as guest lecturer at UVA’s College at Wise, Wise, VA. Her poetry has appeared in various anthologies, including We Grew Wings and Flew (2014), Scratching Against the Fabric (2015), Virginia Writer’s Club Centennial Anthology (2017), Blue Ridge Anthologies and Mizmor Anthology (2018). Journals include: Loch Raven Review, The Virginia Literary Journal, vox poetica, Jimson Weed, Whisky Advocate, and Poetica. Other works include Love Always, Hobby and Jessie (2009), Two Little Girls in a Wading Pool (2012), A Cruise in Rare Waters (2013 Stones for Words (2014), Sometimes the Little Town (2016, Poetry Society of Virginia’s 2017 Book Award finalist). In 2019, Needville, her poetry about effects of coal mining on SW Virginia was published; and in 2020 debuted as play in Charlottesville. Simple River (Cyberwit) released in 2020. Poetry Matters (2022), is a compilation of her essays in Southern Writers Magazine on the art and craft of writing poetry. Her play, Needville, revived in January 2024 at the Live Arts Theater in Charlottesville, VA, and was selected a Spotlight production in the 2024 WaterWorks Festival(Live Arts).
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