One of my full-length manuscripts was a finalist for the 2018 Cider Press Review Book Award, the 2017 Crab Orchard Series in Poetry First Book Award, and the 2016 Four Way Books Intro Prize in Poetry. Shortlisted for the 2015 Matrix Magazine Lit POP Award in Poetry (Montreal). In Best New Poets 2012 (chosen by Matthew Dickman). One of 3 winners of the Third Wednesday 2011 Poetry Contest. Twice nominated for a Best of the Net Award. Finalist in the Tiferet 2010 Sacred Poetry Contest, judged by Marie Howe. My chapbook STELLAR TELEGRAM won the 2009 Sheltering Pines Press Chapbook Competition.
My work has appeared in dozens of journals in the U.S., Canada, and the U.K. over the last 35 years.
Larsen's rich imagery makes these poems sing. She has an uncanny instinct for capturing place so precisely that you feel you are there. Her titles are themselves poems. A lovely collection.