Formal Bio Deborah DeNicola is the author of six books and editor of dozens. Her most recent is her 3rd full poetry collection, The Impossible, from Kelsay Press which won first place in the poetry competition at the Los Angeles Book Festival. . Original Human is from WordTech Press, for which she received her fifth Pushcart Nomination, Her spiritual memoir, and Amazon Best Seller, The Future That Brought Her Here from Nicholas Hays/Ibis Press reached #1 is Psychology and Social Sciences on Amazon.com in Sept 2009 and won an Honorable Mention at the Los Angeles Book Festival in 2013. In 2007 Finishing Line Press published Inside Light, a chapbook. Deborah edited the anthology Orpheus & Company; Contemporary Poems on Greek Mythology from The University Press of New England, and in 2008 won the analytical essay award from Packingtown Review and The Santa Barbara Poetry Award, the first place award from Briar Cliff Review Poetry Competition in 2006 and Carpe Articulum’s first place in their 2010 Poetry Contest. In 2013 her short story won The Carol Bly Short Story competition and is featured on writersrisingup.com. She was awarded a Poetry Fellowship in 1997 from the National Endowment for the Arts, The William T. Foley Award from America, The Barbara Bradley Award from The New England Poetry Club, and a Special Mention from The Pushcart Prizes 1992. She also the author of Where Divinity Begins (Alice James Press) and four chapbooks, Harmony of the Next (2005) which won the Riverstone Chapbook Award, Psyche Revisited (1992), which won the Embers Magazine Chapbook Contest, Inside Light (2005 Finishing Line Press) and Rainmakers (Coyote Love Press ). Deborah received a Special Mention from Pushcart Prize 2002. Her poems and reviews have been published in many anthologies and journals such as The North American Review, The Antioch Review, Crab Orchard Review, Fiction International, Nimrod, The Journal, The Boston Book Review, Prairie Schooner, Runes and Orion among others. She has been a Bread Loaf Scholar, a recipient of fellowships from The MacDowell Colony, The Centrum Foundation, The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and The Vermont Studios. Deborah teaches writingonline as a freelance editor, working off her website www.intuitivegateways.com. She served as Poetry reviewer for The Ft. Lauderdale Sun Sentinel and a contributing editor for the South Florida Poetry Journal and She has been an adjunct professor at Massachusetts College of Art, and Lesley University in Cambridge.