Born: 03/01/1926   Chicago
Parents: Anna De Beer and Edward E. Fennema
Spouse: Robert T. Otten
Children: Gillis Robert and Justin Edward
Address(es):
Permanent :
English Department, Calvin College
Grand Rapids , MI 49546
Contact Information:
Phone : (616) 526-8525
Email : [email protected]

Image	Title	Genre	Audience	Publisher	Date
	The flying mouse - illustrated by Greg Crawford.	Fiction , Picture Book	Children	Piermont, NH : Bunker Hill Publishing	2014
	Home in a Wilderness Fort : Copper Harbor, 1844	Historical Fiction , Michigan	Adult	Traverse City, MI: Arbutus Press	2006
	The Literary Werewolf : an anthology	Fiction , Fantasy , Folklore	Adult	Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press	2002
	January Rides the Wind : a book of months - illustrated by Todd L.W. Doney.	Poetry	Children	New York: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard	1997
	The Virago Book of Birth Poetry - Later published as Book of Birth Poetry, by Bantam, 1995.	Poetry	Adult	London: Virago Press	1993
	English Women's Voices, 1540-1700 - Editor. Nominated for the Roland H. Bainton Book Prize in Early Modern Studies	Non Fiction	Adult	Gainesville: University of Florida Press	1992
	The Voice of the Narrator in Children's Literature : insights from writers and critics - Editors Charlotte F. Otten and Gary D. Schmidt; a collection of original essays by 41 writers and critics.	Non Fiction	Adult	Westport, CT: Greenwood Press	1989
	A Lycanthropy Reader: Werewolves in Western Culture - Editor of this collection of primary materials in medicine, law, history, literature of the Middle Ages and Renaissance.	Non Fiction	Adult	Syracuse: Syracuse University Press	1986
	Environ'd with Eternity: God, Poems and Plants in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century England	Non Fiction	Adult	Lawrence, KS: Coronado Press	1985
	Other writings: - Articles published in Palo Alto Review, The Shakespeare Newsletter, The Dictionary of Literary Biography, Women and Language, Eros and Anteros, Signal, Notes and Queries, Praise Disjoined, Spenser Encyclopedia, Chaucer and the Craft of Fiction, TLS, Milton Studies, Shakespeare Quarterly, English Language Notes, English Literary Renaissance, The Explicator, Essays in Criticism, English Studies, The Huntington Library Quarterly, Concerning Poetry, and The Cresset.		Adult		1969 -2001
	Poetry: - Poetry appeared in many journals including The Connecticut Poetry Review, Whiskey Island Magazine, Anglican Theological Review, Rolling Coulter, Big Two Hearted, Southern Humanities Review, Skylark, North Stone Review, The MacGuffin, The Amherst Review, Phase and Cycle, The Great Lakes Review, The South Florida Poetry Review, Manhattan Poetry Review, Virtue, Kentucky Poetry Review, Snowy Egret, Descant, Poems from Aberystwyth, The Cresset, Commonweal, Interim, Hillsdale Review, Journal 500, Christian Century, South Coast Poetry Journal, Mediphors, Christianity and the Arts, Christianity and Literature, Meadowbrook Press, Mars Hill Review, Texas Review, The Comstock Review, Women and Language, Connecticut Poetry Review, California Quarterly, and Christian Science Monitor.	Poetry	Adult

What is the aim or goal of your writing: Writing is for me a discovery. Whether I'm researching 17th century literature in the British Library or in Harvard University's Rare Books, or researching a nineteenth century remote wilderness fort, I always discover that writing about this research is an inspiring discovery. From random notes or from detailed notes, writing gives life to what would remain inert; it shapes the research, giving it clarity, unity, beauty. Writing poetry, however, is not so much a matter of external research but of internal resources--imagination, memory, sensory experiences, conversations with humans and with nature. It is "emotion recollected in tranquility." I owe my success in writing to readers who identify with the questing spirit, for whom my work resonates.

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

Donated books to the Authors & Illustrators database project: No

Skills:
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MeLCat Links:
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