Saltwater Soul

Lorraine Jeffery delights in her closeup view of the Utah mountains after living and working in Texas, New Mexico, Ohio, Georgia and Oregon. She earned a MLIS degree in library science, and managed public libraries for over twenty years, but she states that her real education didn’t take place in a classroom, but rather in her home, where she and her husband raised their ten children (eight diverse adopted children and two biological).

After retirement, she and her husband have visited Great Britain, Ireland, Japan, Thailand, Austria, Canada, Switzerland, and most of the states in the United States. Although there is an old adage that states that with age comes wisdom, she contends that sometimes age shows up by itself.

She has won poetry prizes in state and national contests and published over 200 poems in journals and anthologies including Clockhouse, Tahoma Literary Review, Naugatuck River Review, Rockhurst Review, and Bacopa Press. Her first book, When the Universe Brings Us Back, was published in 2022, and her chapbook, Tethers, was published by Kelsay Books in 2023. 

Paperback: 66 pages
Publisher: Kelsay Books (May 30, 2024)