Maureen A. Sherbondy

News: Praying at Coffee Shops Out Now

Maureen's second chapbook, Praying at Coffee Shops, is now available from Main Street Rag.

Praying At Coffee Shops

Praying at Coffee Shops was recently reviewed in The Pilot Newspaper, Southern Pines, NC:
Stephen Smith: Poetry Looks at Southern Jewish Life

What a thought-provoking collection for a Jewish audience! Moving from the concrete details of Jewish rituals to their spiritual implications, Sherbondy is full of wisdom and surprises- sometimes ironic, often dark, full of yearning for the tikkun olam seamstresses to stitch the broken world back together with their needles and threads. And what a treat, in the midst of the spiritual struggle, to find in the poet's contemplation of a praying mantis that has landed on her prayer book, one of those rare, transcendent moments when "God's long fingers are reaching, guiding us toward a promise." These tough-minded, deceptively lovely poems yield up more of their considerable power with each successive reading.
—Ellyn Bache

Praying at Coffee Shops is also sold at:

Quail Ridge Books & Music
3522 Wade Ave.
Raleigh, NC 27607

After the Fairy Tale

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After the Fairy Tale can now be purchased locally in the Raleigh area at the following locations:

Biosketch

Maureen Sherbondy was born in Metuchen, New Jersey and received a BA degree in psychology from Rutgers University. Maureen now lives in Raleigh, North Carolina, with her husband and three sons (read more).

Writing

Maureen's poetry has appeared in Calyx, Double Dealer, Feminist Studies, 13th Moon, Cairn, Comstock Review, Crucible, The Raleigh News and Observer and many other publications. Her Poetry has also appeared in many anthologies.

In addition to her poetry, Maureen has had fiction published; has written a novella; and is currently working on a novel (read more).

Awards

Of the numerous awards received, Maureen's selected mentions would include: two poems as finalists in the William Faulkner - William Wisdom Creative Writing Contest and poems which won first place in: the Charlotte Writers' Club Poetry Contest, the Lyricist Statewide Poetry Contest and Gin Bender's Poetry Contest.

Maureen's novella, Someone Drowning, was a finalist in the William Faulkner - William Wisdom Creative Writing Contest (read more).

News & Events

As a finalist, Maureen was selected to read her short story, If the Giant Retired and the Beanstalk Was Intact, at the 2005 Picolo Spoletto Fesitval in Charleston, SC. This story was subsequently read on NPR (read more).

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