Hello
I am an English major with a minor in Creative Writing: Poetry Track at Rutgers University in Newark, New Jersey. I was an early talker and language came easily to me, making me consistently the most advanced reader in my class. As a young girl, I preferred reading books over any other activity and I would usually be found in a corner of the playground with Laura Ingle Wilder’s Little House in the Big Woods in hand while the other children ran around. I would even read on my walk to school, having memorized the cracks in the sidewalk so that I never once stumbled or fell.
I was placed in the advanced track during my elementary school years and took AP courses in high school. I attended Douglass, Rutgers New Brunswick but left because my undiagnosed ADD made completing my course work impossible. I bounced around a number of retail jobs when, at about age thirty, it dawned on me that I love English and always have and that I wanted to work in publishing as a proofreader/ editor. I have applied for summer internships with the Big Five publishing companies in Manhattan; let’s hope I land one!
This blog is meant to be a portfolio of a diverse cross section of my work: mainly poetry, a few short stories, and academic compositions. It goes without saying that I hold the rights to anything and everything published within.
I mostly write rhyming quatrains and couplets, and I will admit, some might find it trite, but I don’t care. I have a style and I revel in it. I hope you enjoy my little wordy wanderings.
If you wish to contact me, I may be reached at:
sgibney@scarletmail.rutgers.edu or
sarahjanegibney@gmail.com
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