A Poet's Bio





Stephanie Mesler is a poet, playwright, story-teller, eroticist, musician. preacher, teacher and mom.  She has been previously published in For the Girls, Skysong, Columbus Monthly, Bedtime Stories and Art, Pillowtalk,   Ubernothing Art Review and Literary Magazine and, most recently, in {short} Fiction, an online publication.  Her play, Mothers' Days, was presented at Third Avenue Performance Space and was nominated for a Columbus Theater Guild award.  She has recently been poet of the week for Poetry Highway.  In Second Life, she was recently awarded The Deck award for poetry and won Second Life's annual Shakespeare read-off.   

Mesler has just completed the first draft of Adventures and Confessions of a Fat Lady Who Sings.  From her work onupcoming publications is interrupted by poetry that asserts itself in her imagination demanding to be written.  Her regular preaching schedule requires a fair amount of time and energy be devoted to homiletics and ritual.  Ms. Mesler uses this blog to publish some of her works, especially sermons and rituals not likely to appear in print elsewhere.  Once in a while, she sees fit to update her poet's diary and share her wisdom (such as it is) and reflections on the writer's life.  

Her book Soul Hill Lullabies, a Poem Cycle is available on Amazon.com.  Her story, Ermengarde the Expansive will appear there in June.  Look for the publication of Mesler's memoir, Adventures and Confessions of a Fat Lady Who Sings in August.  

Ms. Mesler currently lives and writes in Florida.  She is madly in love with a rocket scientist and they communicate well even though the author does not speak airplane.