Doris Lueth Stengel spent her childhood on the prairies
of North Dakota, but married into the woods and lakes
of Minnesota.
Doris attended Concordia College, Moorhead, MN
and received her BS in English Education from the
University of North Dakota. She taught in high school
and in an Alternative High School in Brainerd, MN.
She has mentored students in poetry from elementary
age into college age.
She is a member of Heartland Poets in Brainerd,
the League of Minnesota Poets and the National Federation
of State Poetry Societies (NFSPS) and has served as
president of each of these organizations. Her poetry has been
published in several journals, magazines and anthologies.
She has been married over 50 years and is mother of 3
and grandmother of 5. She resides now within blocks
of the mighty Mississippi River.