Cameron Prow’s poems – Estranged, Wallflower Waltz, Stranger Families, The Death Divide, A Gentler Lens, Happy Birthday and Forget-Me-Not – earned her a first place finish in this year’s Literary Harvest Writing Contest and appeared in Literary Harvest Chapbook 2012.

Treat yourself to a copy or share one as a gift in three ways:

(1) Visit your independent bookstore in Redmond (Paulina Springs, 422 SW Sixth Street), Sisters (Paulina Springs, 252 West Hood Avenue) or Bend (Between the Covers, 645 NW Delaware Avenue, or Dudley’s, 135 NW Minnesota Avenue).

(2) Attend the next monthly meeting of Central Oregon Writers Guild on January 17 (see www.CentralOregonWritersGuild.com for details).

(3) Order directly from the publisher. Send $12 for each copy by check or money order (no cash) and write “LH 2012” on the memo line along with the number of books you are buying. Make your check payable to C.O.W.G. and mail to Pat Wilson, COWG Treasurer, 4320 SW Ben Hogan Drive, Redmond, OR 97756‑8690.

Prow’s poetry has been published in Fishtrap Anthology V, PoetsWest Literary Journals, Reflections: A Collection Of Central Oregon Writings and Cascade Reader. Her short stories have been published in Literary Harvest Chapbooks 2008 and 2009. She has been a featured reader in Oregon and Washington since 1996.

Prow sells her writing skills to authors, job-seekers, for-profit and nonprofit businesses and is proud to have copyedited Gary Lewis’s award-winning biography, John Nosler – Going Ballistic.

Prow is a member of Central Oregon Writers Guild and PoetsWest. Past community-building roles include writers group director, book sale manager, literary host and workshop instructor. An avid reader and hopeful romantic, she enjoys word-prospecting, rockhounding and singing in the shower.