Anora McGaha, MA.LD, LMBT

writer, author, coach and publicist
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Writing

Books

I am an author. Three of my essays have been published in anthologies.
 
The Story of a Chinese Man and an American Woman, in Swaying, University of Iowa Press

Here's to the Future, in Notes from a Traveling Childhood, Foreign Service Youth Foundation

Breath Roots, in Unrooted Childhoods, Intercultural Press

I have a number of books that are in progress and would like to close the circle on them one at a time.
 
Magazines

The only essay I ever submitted to a commercial magazine was accepted for Sage Woman, but then was actually published in a sister magazine Pan Gaia.
 
Newsletters / Quarterlies

Other essays were published in Global Nomads Quarterly, and SAS Institute's SAS Quarterly, an internal newsletter. Later she had articles published on the main Sales Division site and the main SAS intranet site.
 

Poetry 

I have three collections of poetry.

LossSongs
About relationships.
Status: Polishing.

Mediterranean
About growing up around the Mediterranean.
Status: still writing poems to fill out the collection.

A Poet's Sighs
About writing and reading poetry
Status: still writing poems to fill out the collection.

 

Art

The art I enjoy is pencil color abstracts. I have a few series of works. This is folk art, not fine art.

The Fire Birds
Streams
Trees
Leaves
Vines
Quilts
Techno
The Blues Babies
 
 

Photography

In 2005 I bought my first digital camera, ostensibly to take pictures to sell things on eBay or Craigslist. It took a couple of years before that happened, and then I was on a roll. It wasn't until 2008 however that I began taking photographs for fun, for the pure pleasure of finding beautiful scenes in ordinary life. I carried my camera with me everywhere I went, especially on walks. The photos got a ready spot for display in the blogs that were evolving. I have probably a hundred or more photos about Lake Pine, the Apex Community Park lake, and close to that about little Beaver Creek Lake which is part of the Haddon Hall subdivision off Hwy 55 in Apex. My ecclectic photos are in Round About Apex, and it includes such things as interesting objects found on the ground, funny license plates and signs on cars. That blog began as being a local blog about the town of Apex, and still has a lot of photos and content about Apex, but it stretched to include the whole Triangle, and then, when I traveled, the photos from the travels became included too.
 
 

Blogs 

In April 2008 I began blogging in earnest. A natural writer since I was in grade school, but one who hadn't published much, I found the free and easy form of blogging to be just the right recipe for my writing to emerge. I have two dozen blogs, or thereabouts, on a variety of subjects. May 8th I realized I could use a blog to publicize the work of the author whose site I manage: Camilla Trinchieri. Because of the ease of creating posts, the blog has become a "little blog that could" as she wrote.