Jackie Bartley

Jackie Bartley's first book, Bloodroot, was published by Edwin W. Mellen Press in 2002. She graduated from Clarion University in Pennsylvania with degrees in biology and medical technology and worked as a medical technologist for fifteen years before she began writing poetry. She earned an MFA from Western Michigan University in 1988 and has been an adjunct assistant professor at Hope College in Holland, Michigan since 1989. Her poems have appeared in a number of journals including Artful Dodge, Hayden's Ferry Review, Sulphur River Literary Review, Tar River Poetry, and West Branch. She lives on Lake Michigan’s eastern shore with her husband and two crazed Dalmatians.

Ordinary Time
(c)2007, Jackie Bartley
ISBN 13: 978-0-9740701-9-3, $14.00, 87 pages
Library of Congress Control Number: 2007921865
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"Bartley’s new work, her best yet, presents the stories of women’s lives. In
these poems daily, personal, serious, and beautiful moments, one after
another, layer against one another as in a book of black and white
photographs. Women as children, as friends and enemies, as teachers and
daughters, swimmers, travelers, as bodies—Bartley traces out the essential
shape of who we are, how we become."

- Heather Sellers