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Roxanne Halpine Ward

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Roxanne Halpine Ward graduated from the MFA program at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and is a past attendee of the Bucknell Seminar for Younger Poets. Her poetry has appeared in the Georgia Review, Greensboro Review, and the Sow's Ear Poetry Review, among others, and her chapbook, This Electric Glow, is available from Seven Kitchens Press.

Roxanne is an editor with 20+ years of experience working with different types of prose. She is also an avid reader and book reviewer, with reviews in Rain Taxi Review of Books, CALYX, and Poet Lore. She lives and works near Philadelphia.

Roxanne is also a registered yoga teacher - to learn more, visit her yoga website at http://roxdoesyoga.com.
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This Electric Glow

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Reread in Oct 2026. This should have been called “Tug: Hero Horse of the Desert”

Original review from 2010: This was fun, like all these books are. Our friend from earlier books, Erak the Oberjarl of the Skandians, gets kidnapped by the desert people,
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Kristina You've gone nuts! I have a few of these books you just added, if you ever want to borrow. (Brief History, Glass Books, Book Thief, Lake of Dead Languages... I also have some Egypt book by Zahi Hawass, but not the one you listed.)


Michelle Okay seriously. Take a break from reading and watch TV for once! I can't keep up with you!


Kristina Hey, this is fun! Thanks for giving me another way to spend too much time online. :)


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Tia Finally...I join. ;) *waves*


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