Elaine Fowler Palencia
Elaine Fowler Palencia, Champaign IL, is the author of six books of fiction and three poetry chapbooks. Her fourth chapbook, How to Prepare Escargots, will be published this year by Main Street Rag Press. Her book about her maternal great-great-grandfather, On Rising Ground: The Life and Civil War Letters of John M. Douthit, 52nd Georgia Volunteer Infantry, CSA will be published by Mercer University Press in the fall. Her essay, “Newgrange,” appeared in the August 2014 issue of Literary Mama.