chella courington Poet & occasional playwright/fiction writer

chella courington's Biography

I'm a poet who migrated to California with two cats & a fiction writer after living over the South & Midwest. Now I live in Santa Barbara, happily.

Recent News: My second chapbook, How to Teach Grammar, was a runner-up in the Main Street Rag Annual Chapbook Contest 2008. 

 

Upcoming Works

  • "Paper Covers Rock" & "Queen's Bird." Forthcoming in Mademoiselle's Fingertips, Fall 2007.

    “[a group of jellyfish is called a ‘smack.’ a group of lapwings is called a ‘deceit.’].” Forthcoming in In the Grove (Fall 2008). Managing Ed. Stephen Barile.

    “Scarlet.” Forthcoming in Women. Period. Spinsters Inc., 2008.

Family

  • Storytellers from the Appalachians

Causes I Support

  • Amnesty International. Planned Parenthood, NOW, Breast Cancer Research & Support, Move On.org

University Affiliation

  • USC, Ph. D., American & British Lit; New England College, working on MFA in Poetry

Publishers

  • Foothills Publishing, NY: _Southern Girl Gone Wrong_ (2005)

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