NANCY JEAN CARRIGAN

Nancy Jean Carrigan is a member of the Poets' Club of Chicago, the Illinois State Poetry Society and the Aspen Poets' Society. She has traveled to China where she was a guest at an international poetry convocation. One of her sonnets received first prize at the meeting. Her poetry has been published in such various venues as Buffalo Spree, Prairie Light Review, Riverbabble, Psychopoetica, in China and many other venues. She has perticipated in Poets Against the War and other reading venues in Chicago and Aspen, where she lives part of the year. Her poem "Notes on an Ancient Chinese Flute" won the Grand Prize in the Dancing Poetry competition in San Francisco. Also known as a visual artist, she often uses quotations in her paintings is inspired to write about what she draws.