Kory's poems "White Girl" and "Music Lesson" are now appearing in the 2008 issue of Number One.  Read the pdf version here. Kory's poems start on page 39.

The 2007 issue of Number One includes poetry by some of Kory's favorite Tennessee poets: Bill Brown, Elizabeth Howard, Jane Sasser, and more. Read a pdf version here.

Kory's poem "Still, My Daughter Wants to Fly" is forthcoming in Outscape: Writings on Fences and Frontiers, the 2008 Knoxville Writers' Guild anthology, later this year.
 

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 in software development.

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.
 

 Kory's poetry and prose: going coast-to-coast

First of all, Kory reminds you that she would never forsake the South. BUT, she's excited that Pindeldyboz, a NY-based journal, published her short fiction fabulist piece "Swing."  And Rock & Sling, based in Spokane, Washington, has accepted her poem "Lesson from John" for publication in 2008.

"Y'all," she says (and she might be laying on the accent just for fun), "it's nice to know that my work is resonating outside the region."

Pindeldyboz was recently ranked the #1 online journal based on analysis of storySouth's Million Writers Award data.  View the top 30 online journals on the storySouth blog, or get more details and interesting commentary on online journals from Scott Boyan at Thinksimian, who performed the analysis.

Rock & Sling explores faith in art and literature, and puts their faith to work: ten percent of each press run is donated to women's shelters, prisons, treatment centers, and other places without resources to purchase literature. How cool is that?

Browse excerpts from the 2007 and prior issues at http://www.rockandsling.org/

 In bookstores now: take your pick of creative nonfiction,  fiction, and poetry

• 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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• Kory's short story "Trade Day" is included in Muscadine Lines: A Southern Anthology from Cold Tree Press, edited by Kathy Hardy Rhodes. "Trade Day" received recognition from both the Alabama Writers Conclave and the St. Louis-based Saturday Writers competitions.
  
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