in the Chautauqua Poetry Contest. Her poems have been Poem of the Week at Split this Rock, 100,000 Poets for Change Selection for their Global Day of Action and sent to President Obama by tens of thousands of poets, Second Runner-up in the Boulevard Emerging Poets Contest, Honorable Mention in The 38th New Millennium Awards, and finalists for the Rita Dove Poetry Award and the James Mitchell Poetry Award. She teaches writing privately and for the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at the University of Michigan. She actively maintains a blog about poetry, the environment, and the 80-acre farm and native prairie she lives on and maintains. Her work has also appeared in the American Literary Review, Southern Poetry Review, the Coal Hill Review, and Crab Creek Review. Previously, her fiction was featured in Best New American Voices 2006. Deatrick has also received University of Michigan Hopwood Awards in Fiction and Poetry. Former candidate for Michigan Senate On August 7, 2018, Deatrick narrowly lost her primary race for the 18th district of the Michigan Senate (Ypsilanti, Ann Arbor, Saline, Milan, several townships) by 241 votes in a four-way race. She had announced her candidacy on September 7, 2017. As a progressive Democratic candidate, Deatrick was endorsed by multiple left-leaning organizations. She also received distinctions from Planned Parenthood as a candidate with a 100% favorable rating and as a Moms Demand Action Gun Sense Candidate. Her progressive platform includes gun control, increased public education funding, universal single-payer health care, environmental cleanliness, road and infrastructure repair, care and rights for seniors, veterans' services, removing corruption from politics, criminal justice reform, and equality and representation for women, people of color, immigrants, people with disabilities, and the LGBTQ+ community. Education Deatrick holds a BA from Wesleyan University, a Master's Degree in Education Policy and Administration from Harvard, and an MFA in creative writing from the University of Michigan. She did further graduate work at Stanford University and is ABD on a PhD in Education and Political Science. References External links Personal website Campaign Facebook Page Living people American women poets Wesleyan University alumni Harvard Graduate School of Education alumni University of Michigan alumni Poets from Michigan County commissioners in Michigan Women in Michigan politics Michigan Democrats Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century American women