Awards “Anticipatory Grief,” was awarded Grand Prize in the 90th Annual Writer’s Digest Writing Competition, 2021. https://www.writersdigest.com/wd-competitions/writers-digest-90th-annual-competition-winning-rhyming-poem-anticipatory-grief “Elegy,” written in memoriam for Jill Goins Whitfield, was awarded Honorable Mention in the Non-Rhyming Poetry category of the 89th Annual Writer’s Digest Writing Competition, 2020.
Melissa Joplin Higley 