Born: 01/05/1948   Windom , MN
Parents: Gordon S. Kling, Regina E. Kling
Spouse: Ron Pederson
Children: Benjamin, Madeline
Address(es):
Permanent :
235 Hampton S.E.
Grand Rapids , MI 49506
Contact Information:
Website : http://miriampederson.com/
Email : [email protected]

Image	Title	Genre	Audience	Publisher	Date
	Poetry in Michigan in poetry - Anthology edited by William Olsen & Jack Ridl.	Michigan , Poetry	Adult	Kalamazoo, Michigan : New Issues Poetry & Prose, The College of Arts and Sciences, Western Michigan University	2013
	Song of the Owastanong: Grand Rapids Poetry in the 21st Century - Anthology edited by David Cope	Michigan , Poetry	Adult	Roseville, Mich. : Ridgeway Press	2012
	This brief light : poems	Poetry	Adult	Cincinnati : Finishing Line Press	2003
	Still the Person I Turn to: Celebrating the Mother-Daughter Bond - Anthology	Poetry	Adult	Wheaton, Ill. : H. Shaw Books	2001
	Essential Love : poems about mothers and fathers, daughters and sons - Anthology edited by Ginny Lowe Connors.	Poetry	Adult	West Hartford, CT ; Poetworks/Grayson Books	2000
	Hospice Poetry Project - Poetry sound recording	Poetry			2000
	New poems from the third coast : contemporary Michigan poetry - Anthology edited by Michael Delp, Conrad Hilberry, and Josie Kearns ; foreword by Donald Hall.	Poetry	Adult	Detroit : Wayne State University Press	2000
	Mothers and Daughters Together - Anthology	Poetry			1999
	Christianity & Literature - Journal	Poetry			1997
	The West of Ireland - A poetry and sculptrue collaborative exhibit at Marywood Gallery, Grand Rapids	Poetry			1995
	Mount Olive Review	Poetry	Adult		1994
	Virago Book of Birth Poetry - Anthology	Poetry	Adult	New York : Bantam Books	1994
	Passages North Anthology - edited by Elinor Benedict ; introduction by Charles Baxter.	Poetry	Adult	Minneapolis, Minn. : Milkweed Editions	1990
	Contemporary Michigan Poets: Poems from the Third Coast - Anthology edited by Michael Delp, Conrad Hilberry, Herbert Scott	Poetry	Adult	Detroit : Wayne State University Press	1988
	Primavera	Poetry	Adult	University of Chicago	1981
	Doubletake - A poetry and sculpture collaborative exhibit at Aquinas College Gallery and at Rankin Center Gallery (Publication Years: 1997, 1998)	Poetry
	Enduring Conversations - A poetry and sculpture collaborative exhibit at Aquinas College Gallery and at Rankin Center Gallery, Ferris State University, Big Rapids	Poetry
	The Adding We Do in Our Sleep - Collaborative chapbook	Poetry
	Other writings: - Published in Green River Review and Passages North	Poetry	Adult

What is the aim or goal of your writing: "To celebrate this time and place in the best way I know how."

May inquiries be sent to you about doing workshops, readings: Yes

Donated books to the Authors & Illustrators database project: No

Skills:
Author
Poet

Name	Date
Honorable Mention - "Renaissance Garden Exhibition," Grand Rapids Art Museum (poetry in collaboration with sculpture by Dana Freeman)	1997
Faculty Development Grants, Aquinas College - Grants received for following years: 1989, 1990	1989 -1990
Cranbrook Writers' Conference Scholarship - Scholarship received for following years: 1984, 1985	1984 -1985
Winner of Kent County Poetry Competition	1984

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