Parapherna

by Donora Hillard

Paperback

Published January 1, 2006

About the author

Donora Shaw (née Hillard) is the author of the poetry book Jeff Bridges (with illustrations by Goodloe Byron; Cobalt Press, 2016) and several other books and chapbooks of poetry and theory as well as a one-act play, The Plagiarist (2015). Her work has been recognized by the Poetry Foundation, Poets House, and The Pushcart Prize and appears in Hint Fiction (W.W. Norton & Company), Pedagogy, Women in Clothes (Penguin Random House), and other anthologies and journals. In 2025 she returned to her birthplace in the mountains of Northeastern Pennsylvania, where she lives with her husband and children.