Jesus Greets Janis

ABOUT THE POET ~
Dianalee Velie lives and writes in Newbury, New Hampshire. She is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College, and has a Master of Arts in Writing from Manhattanville College, where she has served as faculty advisor of Inkwell: A Literary Magazine. She has taught poetry, memoir, and short story at universities and colleges in New York, Connecticut and New Hampshire and in private workshops throughout the United States and Europe. Her award-winning poetry and short stories have been published in hundreds of literary journals throughout the USA and Canada. She enjoys traveling to rural school systems in Vermont and New Hampshire teaching poetry for the Children’s Literacy Foundation. Her play, Mama Says, was directed by Daniel Quinn in a staged reading in New York City. She is the author of three books of poetry, Glass House, First Edition, and The Many Roads to Paradise published by Rock Village Publishing in Middleborough, Massachusetts and a collection of short stories, Soul Proprietorship: Women in Search of Their Souls, published by Plain View Press in Austin Texas. They have also published her fourth collection of poetry, The Alchemy of Desire. She is a long time member of the National League of American Pen Women., dianaleevelie.com, Note: Dianalee was the Chairperson of the non-profit Velie Memorial Fund established to build the wonderful children’s playground that now exists in Newbury, NH to honor the memory of her daughter-in-law, Currie-Hill Velie and her two grandsons, Joseph John Velie IV and Jack Jasper Velie.