Helen Losse is a poet, free lance writer, and Poetry Editor of The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature. She has had poems in GFWoman, Sanskrit, Book of Days, Domicile, Independence Boulevard, Holistic Junction, Sacramento Poetry, Art and Music, The Lone Wolf Review, Wired Art from Wired Hearts, The Verb, Window on Wake Forest, On Wings of Hope, MIPOradios’ The Goodnight Show, Black Bear Review, Small Potatoes Magazine, Rearview Quarterly, The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature, Poets for Peace, Blink, Poets Against the War, ShoeBox Diaries, 3 Cup Morning, The Bohemian Rag, Facets, Tacenda, TimBookTu, Alba, Right Hand Pointing, Mastodon Dentist, The Eintouist, Adagio Verse Quarterly, Spillway Review, The TMP Irregular, Blue Fifth Review, Red River Review, Cracked Lenses, Spitfire Poetics, The Centrifugal Eye, Writer‘s harbor, Subtle Tea, The Blueprint: An Assemblage of the Fifth Element, Poem 2006, Southern Hum, Spiral Bridge, For Poetry, Poetry Super Highway, JMWW, The Wild Goose Poetry Review, Flutter Poetry Journal, Muscadine Lines, OCHO, Ann Arbor Review, Scorched Earth, The Peace Tree, A Poetic Justice, Lily, Ghoti, Left Facing Bird, Poetry Friends, The Cherry Blossom Review, and Shape of a Box.

Her poems have appeared in several anthologies, including Washing the Color of Water Golden: A Hurricane Katrina Anthology, In the Arms of Words: Poems For Disaster Relief, Visions of War (UK), When the Going Gets Tough (UK), Voices of Mercy (UK), Ink Thoughts (Canada), and Baby Boomer Birthright and are forthcoming in Literary Trails of the North Carolina Piedmont: A Guidebook. She was featured by Kathryn Stripling Byer, Poet Laureate of NC, on the North Carolina Arts Council web site along with two other Winston-Salem poets.

Educated at Missouri Southern State and Wake Forest Universities, Helen is a Christian, a pacifist, and a student of Martin Luther King Jr. She wrote her thesis “Making All Things New: The Redemptive Value of Unmerited Suffering in the Life and Works of Martin Luther King Jr.” (MALS, Wake Forest, 2000). It can be located in the Z. Smith Reynolds Library at Wake Forest University. And if you’re real interested, get the thesis on inter-library loan. She wrote four entries in the Encyclopedia of North Carolina.

Helen lives with her husband Bill in Winston-Salem, NC, where she occasionally writes book reviews for the Winston-Salem Journal, Cutbank, Galatea Resurrects, and Adagio Verse Quarterly.

She has two chapbooks, Gathering the Broken Pieces, available from FootHills Publishing, Paper Snowflakes, available from Southern Hum Press. (see My Books for ordering information), and two micro-chapbooks, Absolution and Rookie at the Barre, in the POEMS-FOR-ALL Series from 24th Street Irregular Press.

Her first full length poetry collection, Better With Friends, was published by Rank Stranger Press in 2009.

She is a NASCAR fan, a Tony Stewart fan, a Kyle Busch fan, a Ryan Newman fan, a Kurt Busch, a Carl Edwards fan, a fan of the flip. A Dallas Cowboys fan, a Wake Forest Demon Deacons fan, and a fan of the Carolina Tar Heels. Helen loves Christmas. And yes, she is a Democrat.

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