Theresa C. Vara grew up in the Bronx and attended Manhattan College. She graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, receiving the college’s awards in English and French, and went on to graduate from New York Law School in 1980. She received a Certificate of Advanced Study in Humanities from Wesleyan University in 2002, and is currently completing her dissertation as a Ph.D. candidate through the University of Wales, Swansea. She has taught English and French at a number of schools, including Chase Collegiate School in Waterbury, Connecticut, from which she twice received the Innovative Teaching Award. At present she teaches English at University High School in Hartford and considers herself blessed to spend so much of her time discussing literature and poetry with teenagers. Her poetry has been published by New Song Press and anthologized by the Houghton Mifflin Company. In conjunction with Mary Donnarumma Sharnick, she is the founding editor of The Litchfield Review. She lives in Roxbury, Connecticut. In May, 2008, Profligate with Love was voted Best Creative Writing of the Year by the Connecticut Press Club. Click here to read some sample poems. |
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BOOK STATISTICS ISBN: 978-0-9770633-6-9
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UNCLE RANDY
We bounced loose Once there My father said |
INHERITANCE
Years later, after her wake, |
TO THE WOMEN OF SREBENICA
No jewelry was found. The bodies are numbered You may claim |
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