Sunstars In The Meltswamp (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780692236055)

MARION FRAHM TINCKNELL, born in 1928 in Flushing, Long Island, was educated at Friends Academy in Locust Valley, Long Island, and at Cedar Crest College in Allentown, Pennsylvania, where she received her BA degree in 1951 with a major in French and English Literature. She has had her poetry published in nine anthologies and in many small magazines, including "The MacGuffin," a publication of Schoolcraft College; her poem, "The Legend of Kyla, Hawk Woman" in the special issue, "Superstition, Myth, and Magik," was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 1997. She has presented poetry performances and workshops in schools, churches, libraries, and gatherings of adults for more than thirty-five years. She was an Artist-in-the-Schools for the Bay Arts Council for seven years, visiting elementary schools all over Bay County (Michigan). She participated for thirteen years in the Summer Magic Program, a summer art and activity day camp for underprivileged children at a local Church. She was secretary of The Poetry Society of Michigan from 1988 until 2002 and has been a member of The River Junction Poets since its beginning in 1974. In recent years, she has taken classes in watermedia painting. She lives in Saginaw, Michigan with her husband, Les. They have four children and fourteen grandchildren.