Biography

Darlyn Finch is the Winter 2006/2007 writer-in- residence at the Kerouac House. A poet known for her saucy style and engaging readings, she is also a gifted storyteller. Her work has appeared in literary journals, newspapers, and online. Her poems have been featured on Poetic Logic on WMFE-FM. She is a repeat winner of the Mt. Dora Festival of Art and Literature; Cultural Liaison for the Society of American Travel Writers Institute; and the eponymous “Scribbler,” author of the Scribbles literary newsletter and sunscribbles.com. She holds an English degree from Rollins College and is pursuing her Master of Fine Arts at Spalding University.

Blurbs

By turns sexy, poignant, heart-breaking, and triumphant, Darlyn Finch's words fly off the page and rain down on us, drenching us in the sweet, fresh waters of a woman learning what it is to, finally, finally, come alive. Read this book; relish it: Darlyn Finch is a wise and wonderful writer.
~Connie May Fowler
Author of Before Women had Wings and The Problem with Murmur Lee

Darlyn has a candid, clear, direct free verse writing style that communicates easily to audiences about a woman’s roles as daughter, wife, lover, and mother. With humor and forthright opinions, she creates a voice that declares, questions, wonders, and remembers, using metaphor and telling detail to evoke narrative situations.
~ Molly Peacock
Poet, former President, Poetry Society of America, founder of Poetry In Motion

The poems are dark, then funny, then dark and funny, but in the end the dark wins. They probe our tormented world with fresh eyes and the voice of a story teller who seems to have just arrived from her Florida past.
~Philip F. Deaver
Author of Silent Retreats and How Men Pray

Darlyn Finch sees the world through kaleidoscope glasses, seamlessly blending fragments of life, each turn of the page revealing another mosaic to be treasured.
~Ed Masessa
Author of The Wandmaker’s Guidebook

Reviews

The Comstock Review

The Critic’s Pen
Reviewed by Peggy Miller, Senior Editor, February 2007

“Here is a delightful find, an appealing combination of simple, dark and wise…”

These works are open-eyed to life’s tenderness and sadness—and the intersection of tenderness and sadness, which is the source of power in Finch’s writing.

A native Floridian, Finch was the recent writer in residence at Kerouac House in Orlando. Many Americans these days relocate often, but Finch lives in the midst of her history. In the poem “Hometown” she writes, “There are ghosts in the sanctuary,/ and our hometown is a place/ where we visit family/ alone/ on opposite ends of town.”
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Leslie Halpern of the online magazine Suite101 had this to say about Red Wax Rose:

This entertaining collection may prove especially inspiring for Southern women, although it includes slices-of-life to which we can all relate. — Leslie Halpern, Suite 101
http://poetry.suite101.com/article.cfm/book_review_red_wax_rose

Orlando Weekly

ARTS & CULTURE TO GO
The setting should be as memorable as the words when writer Darlyn Finch reads from her newly published book, Red Wax Rose (Shady Lane Press), on the patio of the Cornell Fine Arts Museum, under the stars and/or clouds.
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About The Publisher

Shady Lane Press, based in Orlando, Fla., is an independent, for-profit publisher of poetry, short stories, essays, memoir and creative non-fiction. Inspired by the work and legacy of Jack Kerouac, our goal is to discover and promote new and emerging voices.