Raleigh Poet Releases New Book About Emotional Damage.

Prolific writer releases fourth book of poetry.
By: maureen sherbondy
 
Aug. 24, 2011 - PRLog -- Raleigh Writer Releases Book of Poetry About Emotional Damage

Raleigh, NC, August 24 – North Carolina writer Maureen Sherbondy has published her fourth book of poetry, Scar Girl. Sherbondy, a Raleigh, North Carolina fiction writer and poet, has written an emotionally accessible poetry collection.

Sherbondy is an award-winning writer. Her stories have appeared in Stone Canoe, the North Carolina Literary Review, Southeast Review, and the Sierra Nevada College Review. She is a previous winner of the Piccolo Spoleto Fiction Open, as well as a finalist in Southeast Review’s Best Short-Short Story Contest. Her previous poetry collection, Praying at Coffee Shops, won first place in the poetry category of the Next Generation Indie Book Awards. Her first poetry collection, After the Fairy Tale, was published in 2007 (Main Street Rag). Weary Blues was released by Big Table Publishing in 2010.

North Carolina poet Malaika King Albrecht describes Sherbondy’s new collection: “In Scar Girl, Maureen Sherbondy’s most recent chapbook, she deftly explores the nature of intimate and familial relationships and emotional damage. It’s said that pain’s a by-product of being alive, but misery, optional. Sherbondy’s poems attest to that reality and rise above to illustrate the resilience of spirit. She says in the poem The Distance Between Us, ‘For I am on the roof of our house/trying to touch those stars.’ Her intimate and darkly memorable poems echo with regret for what breaks our hearts and spirits, but these brave poems also reverberate with stubborn hope.”

Scar Girl is now available for pre-sale through Kentucky publisher Finishing Line Press, ISBN: 1-59924-836-0. The book is $14.00 and can be ordered from the publisher at http://www.finishinglinepress.com/NewReleasesandForthcomi... . Scar Girl will also be available in November at select independent booksellers.

Author Contact: Maureen Sherbondy
Phone: (919) 389-2902
1300 Tribute Center Drive, apt. #474
Raleigh, NC  27612
msherbondy@nc.rr.com
www.maureensherbondy.com

Media Contact: Leah Maines, Editor
Phone: (859) 514-8966
Finishing Line Press
P.O. Box 1626
Georgetown, KY  
LeahMaines@aol.com
Review Copies and Interviews Available
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