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About Lorna Wood
Lorna Wood was raised in Oberlin, Ohio, by a composer and an art historian. She received degrees in violin performance and English from Oberlin College and a Ph.D. in English from Yale University. After graduate school, she was an instructor for six years at Auburn University.
In addition to The Jesus Wars and Family Values, Lorna has writing appearing or forthcoming from The Pine Cone Review, Mslexia, Grand Little Things, The Poetry Bar, 2% Milk, WhimsicalPoet, Hotazel, Otherwise Engaged, ubu,, Mollyhouse, FEED, Litterateur, Fevers of the Mind (Wolfpack Contributor), Mulberry Literary, Poetic Sun, Angel Rust (Best of the Net nominee), Kindle Vella, Right Hand Pointing, Quaranzine, Schlock!, Nevermore, MacQueen's Quinterly, The Bookends Review, After the Pause, cc&d, 34 Orchard, Lucky Jefferson (365), North of Oxford, Coffin Bell, DASH, Doubleback Review (Pushcart nominee), Poems for the Thoughtful Young (B Cubed Press), Daikaijuzine, Online Writing Tips (co-winner, third prize, 2019 fiction contest), Litro (USA) Lab, Courtship of Winds, Brave New Word, M58, Scarlet Leaf Review, NoSleep Podcast, Canyons of the Damned, Poetry South (2018 Pushcart Prize nominee), Five:2:One (#thesideshow), Poetry WTF?!, Jerry Jazz Musician (finalist, 2017 fiction contest), Unstitched States, Mysterical-E, Wild Violet, Cacti Fur, Every Writer, and the following anthologies: Love (Pure Slush), A Monster Told Me Bedtime Stories (Soteira Press), Escape Wheel (Great Weather for MEDIA), Horror USA: California (Soteira Press), What We Talk About When We Talk About It (Darkhouse), Leaves of Loquat V (second prize, 2018 Loquat Literary Festival contest), Luminous Echoes (poems shortlisted for Into the Void's 2016 contest), and Dark Magic (Owl Hollow Press), among others. She was twice long-listed for the Erbacce Prize (2019 and 2022), and in 2016 she was a finalist in the Neoverse Short Story Competition and the Valus' Sigil contest at Sharkpack Poetry Review. Her poetry has been favorably reviewed on New Pages (15 Dec. 2016), and she has published scholarly essays on the American Renaissance, children's literature, and Lolita.
Lorna's son, William Wehrs, wrote Five Scary Adventures in Playtime (illustrated by Lorna and now on Kindle) for his art class when he was eight. William is a social studies teacher with a master's degree in education from Lehigh University. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa and summa cum laude with a B.A. from Ursinus College, where he majored in history and minored in film studies. His essay on film music appears in the Palgrave Handbook of Affect Studies and Textual Criticism, and his honors thesis, "Rape Culture: Tools of Oppression," and Summer Fellows paper, "The Rise of Political Factions in the United States: 1789-1785," are available at https://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu.
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Blog postPublicity sheet David L O’Nan made for the reading I participated in. I had a nice time in Evansville, Indiana, reading with David L O’Nan (Editor of Fevers of the Mind) and friends. I also played Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” on the violin under David’s reading of his poem, “A Hallelujah for a Midnight War.” Met nice people; heard good poetry and an excerpt from Shawna Kay Rodenberg’s memoir, Kin.
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Blog postSharon Mollerus, The Sun Shines on Weeds Too. 14 Aug. 2008. Wikimedia Commons. CC BY 2.0. I’m highly gratified to be long-listed again for the Erbacce Prize, or “erbacce-prize,” as the press writes it. “Erbacce,” the press tells us, is Italian for “weed”–hence the picture I selected for this post. Although many people made the long list, it is truly an honor to be selected out of almost 15,000 entrants from all over the world. Also, it is my second time making the long list out of two times1 week ago Read more
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Blog postView this post on Instagram A post shared by 2% MILK (@uddertimes)
Instagram post from 2% Milk inviting people to their launch party. They asked me to share this. Even though I can only dimly remember the last time I went to a “really cool PARTY,” I was excited to get this invitation in my email. First of all, as I intimated in the “update” at the end of this post, my fellow artists are impressive. Here is a video by Ha Vay to illustrate. Second, the concept behind 2% Milk
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Blog postDarrell Taylor, Magic Kingdom – SpectroMagic Parade. 22 Oct. 2006. Wikimedia Commons. CC BY 2.0 One of my violin students is a magic child. She always wears magic clothes. Last lesson it was a retro kimono over athleisurewear. Sometimes it is a glittering unicorn t-shirt. Other times, lots of sequins. It’s not just her wardrobe, either. Sometimes she “is” an animal. Other times, she expresses astonishment over my (very rudimentary) piano playing, as if it were miraculous. Always, she gives t2 weeks ago Read more
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Blog postI am pleased to see my second contribution as a Wolfpack Contributor to Fevers of the Mind up on the site. I mentioned this piece before: it is the essay I submitted to the “Word Solvers” column of The New York Times. Although they gave me the opportunity to revise it, I found I had said exactly what I had in me to say and could neither transform it into glorified ad copy for their Games app nor come up with any alternative that would do.
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Blog postMarta Stankevica, Woman_Writing_a_Letter.gif. Derived from Gerard ter Borch – Woman Writing a Letter – 797 – Mauritshuis.jpg. 2020. Wikimedia Commons. CC BY 4.0. I was pleasantly surprised to find that my blog–yes, the very blog you are reading right now–has been accepted by Mslexia for their “Blogability” feature. It will appear in Issue 94 in June.
Mslexia is a print and digital magazine produced in the UK for women writers. I am not very familiar with it, but I was on its mailing1 month ago Read more -
Blog postBook about Rena and her art. Taken by me. I was happy when Steve, Rena’s husband, delivered this book today. I wrote about my piece in it and my friendship with Rena here. I’m honored to be in this book, and I hope it kindles interest in displaying Rena’s artwork. Although it was privately printed, I expect it will have a good number of readers, as Rena had a large circle of friends and relations. I’m looking forward to seeing more of Rena’s artwork in the volume and getting to know her thro2 months ago Read more
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Blog postDoug Smith, Gibbon wolf pack standing on snow. 1 March 2007. Wikimedia Commons. PD. It was fun to find I had made my debut as a Wolfpack Contributor over at David L O’Nan’s Fevers of the Mind.
Both my bio and my poem sequence, “Three Poems About the Grand Canyon,” are up there now. I have been reading the bios and poems of my fellow pack members, and it is flattering and challenging to find myself in such heady company. I will have to pull my poetic socks up.
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Blog postWater color and pen and ink work by Rena Williams, photographed by me. I am not sure whether this has a title, but she said she created it for her son Robert, who passed away in his thirties. My friend Rena died in October. As her artwork suggests, she was an endlessly creative person. She was also full of love for all things good and beautiful and perpetually curious about the world. She left a lot of great art behind–I am fortunate to have a small collection of it–and her family and friend2 months ago Read more
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Blog postRackham, Arthur. 1909 illustration of Romeo and Juliet for Tales from Shakespeare by Charles and Mary Lamb. 14 January 1909. Wikimedia Commons. {{PD-US-expired}}. Seriously. Not an April Fool’s joke. My “Sonnet from Romeo and Rosaline,” which I wrote about here, and which I thought would be hard to place, has been purchased by Bullshit Lit for their first Bullshit Anthology, whose ETA is late summer. Many thanks to Editor in Chief Veronica Bennett for her excellent taste2 months ago Read more
Titles By Lorna Wood
Bedtime. The twilight of consciousness, the darkness that lies between reality and dreams. Here, on the threshold of slumber, we open the door to myriad dreamscapes, to other worlds and astral planes. A thousand doors to a thousand worlds... and the nightmares that hide within.
Open the door, cross the threshold, and dream the night away. But be careful, and remember:
When you open the door to a realm of nightmares… sometimes you let the nightmares in.
A schoolyard nightmare with a taste for children…
Faceless horrors that prowl the boundary between consciousness and slumber in search of prey…
Houses where dreams and nightmares come to life…
Imaginary friends who bleed into reality…
Old gods who weave webs of nightmares to reveal horrific truths…
A monstrous storyteller who’s just dying to tell a tale about you…
These are just a few of the bedtime stories written by—and for—monsters.
In these pages you’ll find an unforgettable collection of dreams unleashed upon reality and reality transformed into nightmares. Penned by award-winning authors, bestselling writers, and visionary nightmare-smiths, A MONSTER TOLD ME BEDTIME STORIES will remind you what it means to be afraid of the dark.
Catch and Release by Hunter C. Eden
15 Things You Need to Know About Visiting the Spirit Realm by Philip Harris
A Peaceful Life I’ve Never Known by Jeff Bowles
Bus Stop by Ernie Howard
Moroccan Fringe by Daniel Arthur Smith
Human Wheels Spin Round and Round by Desmond Warzel
Birds of a Feather by Lorna Wood
SNAFU64 by David Alan Jones
Room C by Daniel Arthur Smith
Trick or Treat in Hell by Robert Jeschonek
Trick or Treat by Michael Anthony Lee
One Last Trip around the Block by Will Swardstrom
By the Light of the Full Earth by Daniel Arthur Smith
Tales from the Canyons of the Damned (canyonsofthedamned.com) is a dark science fiction, horror, & slipstream magazine we've been working on since 2015. What is Dark Science Fiction and Horror? Think of it as a literary Twilight Zone, Night Gallery, or Outer Limits, it's Netflix's Black Mirror and Amazon's Electric Dreams in the short story format. And it's a bargain. Each monthly issue has three-to-five sharp, suspenseful, satirical tales from today's top speculative fiction writers.
These are Dark Sci Fi Slipstream Tales like you've never read before.
Human Wheels Spin Round and Round by Desmond Warzel
Birds of a Feather by Lorna Wood
SNAFU64 by David Alan Jones
Room C by Daniel Arthur Smith
Tales from the Canyons of the Damned (canyonsofthedamned.com) is a dark science fiction, horror, & slipstream magazine we've been working on since 2015. What is Dark Science Fiction and Horror? Think of it as a literary Twilight Zone, Night Gallery, or Outer Limits, it's Netflix's Black Mirror and Amazon's Electric Dreams in the short story format. And it's a bargain. Each monthly issue has three-to-five sharp, suspenseful, satirical tales from today's top speculative fiction writers.
These are Dark Sci Fi Slipstream Tales like you've never read before.
and 5 plus years later, we are still in disarray. Politics, Pandemics, a loss of passion. Anger, Depression, the unknown.
We are still writing. We are still painting. We are still artists.
Just listen to Leonard Cohen for a few moments. Read the truths that he
wrote and sung about in metaphor and imagery.
For a few moments we can regain passion enough to feel inspired as he has
the writers and artists featured in this second anthology in honor of Leonard Cohen.
With artwork from Geoffrey Wren, and also revised poetry from David L O’Nan, writer and editor of this anthology.
In our first edition “Avalanches in Poetry: Writings & Art Inspired by Leonard Cohen” in 2019 we had wonderful writings & art which some will see a second light of day in this edition.
"I'd like to tell my story"
Said one of them so young and bold
"I'd like to tell my story
Before I turn into gold" from a Bunch of Lonesome Heroes by Leonard Cohen
Features artwork by Geoffrey Wren, poetry & stories from David L O'Nan, Ethan McGuire, Tom Harding, Joe Kidd, Robert Frede Kenter, Joan Hawkins, Ankh Spice, Arthur L Wood, Sadie Maskery, Kari Ann Flickinger, ps pirro, Peter Hague, Lorna Wood, Benjamin Adair Murphy, Attracta Fahy, Christina Strigas, Barney-Ashton Bullock, John W. Leys, Amy Barnes, Jim Young, Elizabeth Cusack, Richard LeDue, Michael Igoe, Samantha Terrell, Lisa Alletson, Carrie Sword, Samantha Merz, Janet Beekman, Lennon Stravato, Catherine Graham, William Taylor Jr, Kat Blair, Adrian Ernesto Cepeda, S. Reeson, Shane Schick, Gerald Jatzek, Merril D. Smith, Jim Feeney
What We Talk About When We Talk About It is a literary exploration of the myriad faces of this powerful four-letter word.
Poetry and prose by:
Kelly Magee, Sage, MeeRee Orlandini, Erika Rasmussen, Anonymous, Woody Woodger, Lisa Dordal, Lawdenmarc Decamora, Lisa López Smith, Richard Weems, Lorna Wood, Sharon L. Charde, Alexis Rhone Fancher, Kacie Berghoef, Mel Carlson, Amanda Moore, Shelley Valdez, Jenn Richter, J. White, Claire Hawkins, Ali Abbas, Sean Finucane Toner, Emily Rapp Black, Isabelle Jia, Jackie Craven, Winter Ross, Marian Armstrong Rogers, Rebecca Pilling, Susan Cummins Miller, Thomas Kearnes, Kate Hodges, Laura Lee Washburn, James Penha, Timothy O’Leary, Evan Balkan, D. Dina Friedman, Kate Larsen, Susannah Carlson, Carly Gates, Beth Konkoski, Sarah Russell, Bill Stenson, Alison Stone, Pamela Balluck, Daniel Loring Keating, Flo Golod, Ivan Faute, Melanie Bell
Most monsters hide in darkness. Ours don’t have to.
Do you know how to summon the stars of Hollywood’s Golden Age?
Would you like to know the truth behind California’s devastating wildfires?
Or why that famous actress stopped making movies?
Ever heard about the ancient horror that that creeps—and feeds—through the canals of the Central Valley?
Want to know what’s really going on at that abandoned theme park in the San Bernardino Mountains?
How about the cursed roads of the High Desert?
Or why all the pets in town are missing?
Twins with godlike powers…
A breathtaking mural that hides a horrific secret…
Bioengineered abominations prowling the rail lines…
Cursed films…
Possessed sports cars…
Beautiful demons…
Immortal movie stars…
These are just some of the horrors you’ll encounter in the Golden State, where the sun always shines… and sometimes blinds.
We have it all: enchanting forests to the north, dazzling deserts in the south, beaches, mountains, movies, music, and so much more. Our beauty will bewitch you, our glamour will excite you… and our horrors will forever haunt you.
The 51-book HORROR USA series is an ambitious project that highlights the unique monsters, legends, and stories found in each of the United States. HORROR USA - CALIFORNIA is the first book in the series.
Lock the doors, turn on the lights, and settle in – it’s time to learn the true meaning of terror, California-style.
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