The Yarn Spinner

Carmen Ruggero’s love of writing began when she was a child, but it did not become a reality until the year 2001. Since then, her fiction has been featured in sites like Short Story Bytes, Scrivener's Pen, and BeWrite. She has coauthored a poetry anthology: "Shaken & Stirred", and a short story collection "Kaleidoscope", published by BeWrite Books. Carmen's poetry is also featured in Canadian e-zine Poetry in Emotion, http://poesieslaissezfaire.homestead.com/friendsamis.html  Sonnetto Poesia, and Poetry Life & Time, where she was featured poet for the month of November 2004. Follow this link to read her interview with Poetry Life & Times:  http://www.poetrylifeandtimes.com/poetnewsNov04.html Carmen was the recipient of the Prix Poesie's Laissez-faire Award in February of 2004. Her poetry work will be featured in The New Pleiades Anthology of Poetry to be released in the summer of 2005.