StarShield Lortie

StarShield lives in Murfreesboro, TN where she cleans houses during the day and writes poetry at night. A student of Native American Shamanic and Toltec traditions for over 15 years, her poetry often reflects the sacred journey of Life by exploring the process Becoming. She has self-published two chapbooks, Voices In My Heart (Pure Heart Press) in 2007 and Graceful Storm (Create Space) in 2014, along with a small volume of jaguar stories titled The Jaguar Diaries (Create Space). StarShield is currently at work on her M. A. in English at Middle Tennessee State University and working on a collection of poems based on the photography of Bruce Davidson.