• Kory's first collection of poetry, Leap, will be available this fall! This perfect-bound chapbook of 28 poems is being published by March Street Press.
   

• Kory was a finalist in Press 53's Open Awards poetry competition, judged by North Carolina poet laureate Kay Byer.
   

• Kory's poem "What Resonates" is now appearing in shaking like a mountain.
   

• Kory's poem "Hope Universal" is now appearing in Literary Mama.
   

• Kory's poem "Christian Education" is now appearing in issue 11 of Ruminate: A Magazine of Faith in Literature and Art

Photo by K. Lee

About Kory

Her prose
has captured
the attention of
Ladies' Home
Journal and the
William Faulkner competition.
Her addictions
include coffee, poetry, and afternoon naps.
Her "real job"
is with a software company where she used to write code - and now oversees corporate communications.

Forthcoming work

• The poem "At the Old-Time Jamboree" is slated for the Spring/Summer 2009 issue of Now & Then.
   
• The poem "We Climb onto the Motorcycle of Sleep," on a line by Kentucky poet Jane Gentry, is slated for the debut issue of Southern Women's Review in July.

Other online pubs

• Kory's poem "Intersection" is now appearing in New Southerner, a cool online magazine and blog about self-sufficient living, environmental stewardship, and more.
   

• An update of "Something Got a Hold of Me: The Passions of Author Silas House," originally published in Southern Hum, is now appearing in Muscadine Lines:  A Southern Journal
  
  In the interview, Silas talks about his recent and forthcoming books: The Hurting Part: Evolution of an American Play, which will be of special interest to writers; his fourth novel, Eli the Good; and Something’s Rising: Appalachians Fighting Mountaintop Removal, a collection of oral histories that he and Jason Howard have compiled.  Kory is a supporter of LEAF, which is profiled in the book.  Learn more
   

• Kory's poem "Phenomena," originally published in Kudzu, is online at Muscadine Lines: A Southern Journal.
   

• Kory's short-short "Swing" is online at Pindeldyboz.

 In bookstores

• Kory's essay "Really Good for a Girl" leads the anthology She's Such a Geek: Women Write About Science, Technology, and Other Nerdy Stuff.  In the essay framed by her childhood desire to be an astronaut and her career in computer science, Kory writes about her mother's legacy of pursuing passions - even when they contradict traditional cultural roles. 
  
  Ladies' Home Journal named Geek to their "Books We Love" list in December 2006 and mentioned Kory's writing that would "resonate" with any woman, geek or not!
  
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