Elizabeth R. McCarthy lives with her husband in an old farmhouse in northern Vermont. Retired from teaching, she turned to poetry when the pandemic closed the world down and time became a windfall. Elizabeth is a member of and web manager/archivist for The Poetry Society of Vermont and an online member of The Lockdown Poets of Aberdeen, Scotland.
Elizabeth’s first manuscript Digging Potatoes was shortlisted in the Hunger Mountain: VCFA May Day Mountain Chapbook Series Contest 2021, followed by chapbooks Winter Vole (Finishing Line Press, 2022) and Hard Feelings (Finishing Line Press, 2024).
Paperback: 48 pages
Publisher: Kelsay Books (April 12, 2024)