About Lorraine A Padden

Lorraine A Padden is a Touchstone nominated poet and former professional dancer whose extensive work in the performing and visual arts have garnered several national awards, including an appointment to the National Endowment for the Arts. Recent honors include First Prize in Tricycle Magazine's 2021 Best of the Haiku Challenge, Third Place in the 2022 Henderson Haiku Award contest of the Haiku Society of America, and a 2022 Honorable Mention and Pinesong Award in the North Carolina Poetry Society Bloodroot Haiku Competition. Her haiku and short form poetry regularly appear in journals and anthologies, and her first collection, Upwelling, was published by Red Moon Press in September, 2022.

Website: http://lorrainepadden.com

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