Clarinda Harriss

Clarinda Harriss teaches poetry and editing at Towson University, where she chaired the English Department for a decade. Winner of numerous prizes for poetry and short fiction, she recently had two new collections see print: MORTMAIN and DIRTY BLUE VOICE. Immediately prior to their publication, AIR TRAVEL came out. All three are from Half Moon Editions: Brooklyn and Atlanta. She has 3 other collections and two academic books to her credit. Recently a group of her poems and a short story formed a special "folio" in the anthology CAREGIVERS AND CARETAKERS. Currently, in addition to full-time teaching and running BrickHouse Books, Maryland's oldest independent literary press, she is the executive producer for FACES: VOICES FROM INSIDE, a video documentary centered on a play written by "lifers" at the Maryland's women's prison and its sevral backstories; she has worked with prison writers (mostly male) for decades. She is has a daughter, Lisa, and a son, Andrew, who, with their spouses, have given her 5 grandchildren. Lisa lives near her in Baltimore; Andy lives in New Zealand. She spends a good deal of time with both--much of it on airplanes.