Meet Betsy

Welcome to my virtual studio. As both a writer and designer, I’m driven by a curiosity about the world. In my studio, I take that curiosity and use it to create new worlds. I write for kids and adults as well as a good deal of freelance non-fiction. Explore to find out more about me, my books, and my thoughts on writing as well as the thoughts of friends who stop by the studio. If you’ve got something you’d like to share reach out to me through the contact form. I’d love to hear from you. Scroll down to read what’s been happening in the studio.

Wise Words
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Wise Words

I think of this poem often. This week I was thinking of it and the way it relates to the creative life. The work of creation is sending out piece after piece from ourselves. Waiting and hoping for one to catch hold.

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   Fewer words sometimes means more power. Congrats to all these poetry and micro-fiction writing powerhouses who will be featured in the upcoming anthology! Give them a cheer.
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Fewer words sometimes means more power. Congrats to all these poetry and micro-fiction writing powerhouses who will be featured in the upcoming anthology! Give them a cheer.

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Review: A Wreath for Emmett Till
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Review: A Wreath for Emmett Till

The story it tells and the moving way it tells it is well worth a review, but what I want to talk about is the structure. Emmett Till’s story is told in a heroic crown of sonnets. A sonnet is a fourteen-line poem in iambic pentameter. A crown of sonnets is a sequence of fifteen interlinked sonnets in which the last line of each is the first line of the next and the final sonnet is made up of the first lines of each of the preceding fourteen poems.

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