Kirsten Neff

Kirsten Jones Neff is a writer and gardening teacher who lives with her husband and three children in a small rural corner of Novato, California. Her first chapbook, When the House is Quiet, won the 2009 Starting Gate Prize and a 2010 Pushcart nomination from Finishing Line Press. Her work has appeared or is upcoming in Spillway, Spoon River Poetry Review, When The Muse Calls: Poems for The Creative Life, 34th Parallel, The Believer, The Marin Poetry Center Anthology, and elsewhere. Her website has a link to her organic gardening blog, Good Dirt.