JL Huffman

Poet

Blue Ridge Mountains, NC
North Carolina US
Website: 
jlhuffman.com
Twitter/X: 
@https://twitter.com/JoanHuffmanMD
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Author's Bio

The author JL Huffman is a former LPN who continued her medical education at The Ohio State University College of Medicine and is now a retired Trauma Surgeon/ICU doctor. She is a prior medical editor of Northeast Florida Medicine and is published in the surgical literature [publish or perish]. 

She lives a full life as an avid world traveler and gardener. The author is exercising her muse and writing in diverse genres: poetry, memoir, and fiction. Her recent concentration has been haiku. However, she is currently working on the fourth draft of a post-apocalyptic novel.

Publications & Prizes

Anthologies:
Fractured by Cattails, 2023 HSA Members Anthology (Haiku Society of America, 2023)
,
North Carolina Bards Poetry Anthology 2023 ("Nightlights") (Local Gems Press, 2023)
,
North Carolina Bards Poetry Anthology 2022 ("Regret") (Local Gems Press, 2022)
Books:
Alien Buddha Zine #57 ("Scarified Sky") (Alien Buddha Press, 2023)
,
The Alien Buddha Goes Pop: Part 2 ("Flintstone Bedrock City" & "Over-Processed, Exhausted" (Alien Buddha Press, 2023)
,
Voyage: Vista and Verse (Independent Press, 2022)
,
Family Treasons (Independent Press, 2021)
,
Almanac: The Four Seasons (Independent Press, 2020)
Journals:
Asahi Shimbun
,
The Pharos
Prizes won: 

2023: Touchstone Award for Individual Poems Nomination by Editor Allyson Whipple, Haiku Girl Summer [copperhead]

2023: Touchstone Award for Individual Poems Nomination by Editor Roberta Beach Jacobson, Cold Moon Journal [contrail]

2021: Pushcart Prize Nomination (for Poetry) by Editor Roberta Beach Jacobson, Cold Moon Journal [ancient he-tortoise]

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Identifies as: 
American
Fluent in: 
English
Born in: 
PA
Pennsylvania
Raised in: 
OH
Ohio
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Last update: Dec 04, 2023