Marie Summers resides in Excelsior Springs, Missouri where she is the webmistress of the popular poetry site, ShadowPoetry.com, as well as the contest coordinator for all competitions hosted there. She is, also, the chief editor of the SP Quill Quarterly Magazine, White Lotus Magazine, and Shadows Ink Publications. Marie has self-published a handful of chapbooks, appeared in various magazines, newspapers, and poetry collections, and has placed in numerous poetry contests.Some of her most recent magazine appearances or issues to come include: Acorn, The Aurorean, bottle rockets, Frogpond, eye, Full Moon Magazine, Haiku Presence, Hummingbird, Kokako, Lynx, Modern Haiku, Moonset, Nisqually Delta Review, Skyline, Paper Wasp, Poetic Hours, The Storyteller, World Haiku Review, and Write On!