Summary

June Sylvester Saraceno is author of the novel,Feral, North Carolina, 1965, as well as the full-length poetry collectionsThe Girl From Yesterday(Cherry Grove Collections 2020),Altars of Ordinary Light(Plain View Press,2007), andOf Dirt and Tar((Cherry Grove Collections, 2014). Her chapbookMean Girl Tripswas published in fall 2006 by Pudding House Press.

Her work has appeared in various journals includingAmerican Journal of Nursing, California Quarterly, The Pedestal, Silk Road, Smartish Pace, Southwestern American Literature, Tar River Poetry, The Rumpus,and others; and several anthologies includingA Bird as Black as the Sun: California Poets on Crows and Ravens; Intimate Kisses: the poetry of sexual pleasure;Passionate Hearts: the poetry of sexual love,andTahoe Blues.

June is originally from Elizabeth City, North Carolina. She is the founding editor of theSierra w88 Reviewliterary magazine, and the founder, director, and fairy godmother of the Writers in the Woods literary speaker series.

Education

• MFA, w88, Bowling Green State University