: About Me

Shirley Ann Lake (Galloway, NJ) founded and was the Editor of *Still Waters Press* until her retirement in early 2007; she served as Managing Editor of the press from 1989-2006. Her poems have appeared in Georgia Review, The Cream City Review, The Lowell Pearl, and numerous other literary magazines. Three of her poetry chapbooks remain in print: Oyster Creek Icebreak, Somewhere Between, and The Bottomfeeders (from Still Waters Press). Lake also authored several booklets for writers, including: Lyric Modes: Voices & Choices, What is a Chapbook?, Zeroes for Zorba: A Feminist Critique, Poetic Ends, and Manuscript Mechanics, among them. Her non-fiction articles and essays have been published in a variety of magazines through the years.

She is a graduate of Stockton State College (now known as "Richard Stockton College") Pomona, NJ, and received her MFA in Poetry from the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers, Swannanoa, NC, in 1988. She currently serves on the Board of Stewards for Hope Humanist Ministry (NY) as Director of Publications and Atheist/Agnostic Liason for the ministry.

She is, most importantly, a mother of two children, grandmother of seven, and great-grandmother of one. Lake makes her home in Galloway, NJ,

My passion is ...

Peace

I know too much about ...

Pain

My parents always told me ...

There's something wrong with you.

My childhood ambition ...

To be a poet.

My favorite memory ...

Big sister taught me Latin before I went to Kindergarten.

Why I write ...

... because I can't help it.

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

Tom Waits is in my head singing "Jersey Girl" most of the time. Occasionally, Shawn Mullins breaks in with his "Lullaby."

My first job ...

Baby-sitter

My best moment ...

Too many to count.

My inspiration ...

My children, my life, my planet.

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