In the Tilling - Softcover

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: Donna Isaac earned English degrees from James Madison University, Virginia; the University of Minnesota; and Hamline University in 2007 where she was awarded Best Poetry Thesis for her capstone, Sustenance. She taught junior high, high school, and college English and writing in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia and in the Twin Cities, Minnesota, retiring from full-time work after 40 years. In 2009, Red Dragonfly Press published her chapbook, Tommy. In 2012 she was the first writer to be published with Red Bird Chapbooks with her chapbook Holy Comforter and a broadside "Bathing." She helped start the literary group Cracked Walnut and serves on the Board for this branch of the League of Minnesota Poets, organizing community readings and free workshops. Pocahontas Press from Virginia published her first full collection of poetry, Footfalls. She helped found the reading series, Literary Bridges, hosting/curating at Next Chapter Booksellers in St. Paul. She has taught at the Loft; North Suburban Arts; and through Cracked Walnut and Penned Poets. In 2019, Finishing Line Press published her chapbook, Persistence of Vision. Her work appears in various journals including the Penn Review, The Saint Paul Almanac, Pine Mountain Sand & Gravel, and others. Her new collection of poetry In the Tilling is from Finishing Line Press.