Hanging Dog Creek (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781938853722)

Mary Ricketson has been writing poetry for 20 years to satisfy a hunger, to taste life down to the very last drop. She is inspired by nature and her work as a mental health counselor. An organic blueberry farmer, she is president of Ridgeline Literary Alliance, serves as Cherokee County representative to North Carolina Writers Network West, and writes a monthly column, "Women to Women," for THE CHEROKEE SCOUT. She won the gold medal for poetry in the 2011 Cherokee County Senior Games/Silver Arts and silver medals in 2012 and 2013. She also took first place in the 2011 Joyce Kilmer Memorial Forest 75th anniversary national poetry contest. Her chapbook, I HEAR THE RIVER CALL MY NAME, was published in 2007 by Finishing Line Press. HANGING DOG CREEK is her first full-length poetry collection.