Shirley J BrewerShirley J. Brewer graduated from careers in bartending, palm-reading and speech therapy. She is a poet, educator, and workshop facilitator. Shirley serves as poet-in-residence at Carver Center for the Arts in Baltimore, and on the board of Passager, nonprofit, independent publisher whose mission is to publish and present the work of older writers. Her award-winning poems garnish Smartish Pace, Poetry East, Slant, Gargoyle, Chiron Review, The Comstock Review, and many other journals/anthologies. Nominated three times for a Pushcart Prize, Shirley was a 2020 guest on The Poet and The Poem with Grace Cavalieri, former Maryland poet laureate, broadcast from the Library of Congress, where Shirley's poems are now archived and - as part of the Lunar Codex program - are currently on the moon! Her lifetime of poetic research includes (brief but memorable) conversations with Al Pacino, Bette Midler, Richard Chamberlain, and Robin Williams.Shirley received the first-ever Creativity Award from the University of Baltimore, where she earned her MA in Creative Writing/Publishing Arts. Her personal definition: I Am Shimmering Goddess Energy. Website: shirleyjbrewer.com Read More Read Less