Priscilla Orr

Priscilla Orr, author of Jugglers & Tides, from Hannacroix Creek Books, is a recipient of fellowships from New Jersey State Council on the Arts and Yaddo and twice nominated for a Pushcart Prize.  Orr's poems been awarded and have appeared in Southern Poetry Review, Nimrod, Worcester Review and other journals.  Orr works as a poet for the Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Program and is on the Cape May Getaway faculty.  An Associate Professor at Sussex County Community College, she has taught literature and writing.  In 2000, she started the Idiom Reading Series, and served as the first Director of the Betty June Silconas Poetry Center.  She is currently serving as Interim Dean of Liberal Arts, Social Science & Education.  Orr lives with Crosby, her Norwich terrier in Hamburg, NJ.