Author Description

In Losing the Horizon, award-winning poet Priscilla Orr's second collection, whose first anthology was Jugglers and Tides, shares her feelings on love, aging, loss and death, as well as the comfort and courage we find in the natural cycle of the seasons -- spring, summer, winter and fall. What they're saying about Losing the Horizon: "This is a moving, poignant collection from a mature voice at the top of her craft." -Paul Genega, poet, That Fall: New and Selected Poems About the Author Priscilla Orr, author of Jugglers & Tides, is a recipient of fellowships from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and Yaddo, a Dodge Poet, and twice nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Orr's poems have been awarded and have appeared in Southern Poetry Review, Nimrod, and other journals. Orr is a full professor of English at Sussex County Community College (SCCC).