Lois Marie Harrod’s 16th and most recent collection Nightmares of the Minor Poet, appeared in June 2016 from Five Oaks. She is continually published in literary journals and online ezines from American Poetry Review to Zone 3. Her poetry collection, Cosmogony, won the 2010 Hazel Lipa Chapbook award (Iowa State). She is a Dodge poet and a three time recipient of a New Jersey Council on the Arts fellowship.