Ann Walters (aka Sharon Hurlbut) is easily one of the most prolific writers of poetry I know. When the Writer Profile Project talked to her on April 4th of last year, she had just completed her ninth round of thirty poems in thirty days. Less than a year later, she’s wrapped up fifteen rounds! I checked in with her recently, and this is what she had to say:

Ann says:

Despite taking a break from writing over the summer to focus on my kids, the past year has been exceptional for me. I’ve just completed my 15th round of writing 30 poems in 30 days and am ready to start again. In 2007 my poems appeared in a number of American and international publications, including Ballard Street Poetry Journal, Main Street Rag, the Australian annual fourW eighteen, the British journal Orbis, and the Irish ezine The Linnet’s Wings. My poem “After Three Hours of Screening Dirt at Heshotauthla” was nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and I was shortlisted for the LICHEN Tracking A Serial Poet competition. I currently have poems forthcoming in seven different print journals, so 2008 is shaping up to be even better. I’ve also completed a full-length poetry book manuscript and have begun looking for a publisher.

Although my focus has been largely on poetry, my fiction has also found some success in the past year. My story “Rising Tide” was included in the anthology “Ruins Terra.” Other stories have appeared or are forthcoming in THEMA, Quarter After Eight, and wigleaf.

In addition to all the writing, I’m still busy knitting. I finally finished the complete Groovy Girls wardrobe that I was designing and knitting. It was a huge hit! I’ve also been taking plenty of photographs since I got a digital SLR for Christmas, and hope to someday submit pictures along with my words.