Roxanne Hoffman

ROXANNE HOFFMAN, a former Wall Street banker, now answers a patient hotline for a New York home healthcare provider, and observes that most folks would rather be dead than broke.
A member of the Vampire Empire, the Bram Stoker Memorial Association and the International Society for the Study of Ghosts and Apparitions, she’s always had yen for the dead and the unnatural.
Her poems and stories appear off and on the net in literary journals such as Champagne Shivers, Danse Macabre, Dark Eye Glances, Dark Gothic Resurrected Magazine, Hospital Drive, House of Horror, Liquid Imagination, Lucid Rhythms, MOBIUS: The Poetry Magazine, Mirror Dance, The Pedestal Magazine, Scarlet Literary Magazine and SNM Horror Magazine.
Nominated for a 2010 Pushcart Prize, Roxanne's work can be found in several anthologies -- The Bandana Republic: A Literary Anthology By Gang Members And Their Affiliates (Soft Skull Press), Love After 70 (Wising Up Press), and It All Changed in an Instant: More Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous & Obscure (Harper Perennial) among others -- and is featured in Dave Gold's 2005 indie flick, Love & The Vampire.
Her take on divorce, “Macabre! Macabre!,” was selected for inclusion in House of Horror Best of 2009 Anthology. "Rattle Them Bones," a song celebrating ghosthood, was selected for House of Horror Best of 2010 Anthology and nominated for a Pushcart Prize. "Roxanne’s poetry ventures deliciously into the realm of pure horror poetry in the vein of Lovecraft. We loved the blazing imagery ... Hoffman can also write subdued, stealthy verse that sneaks up on you," says Garth von Buchholz, Editor of Dark Eye Glances.
She is collaborating with artist Edward Odwitt on a new illustrated poetry book, titled In Loving Memory. 
Still trying to reconcile writing poetry and making money, she runs the small literary press, Poets Wear Prada, since 2006, publishing primarily poetry chapbooks. Visit her blog and her press site.
== Anthologies ==
*House of Horror: Best of 2009
*House of Horror: Best of 2010
Category:Poets