Gloria Mindock Firebird Book Award Winner Author Interview

Gloria Mindock is the founding editor and Publisher of Červená Barva Press. She is the author of Grief Touched the Sky at Night (Forthcoming from Glass Lyre Press, 2023), ASH (Glass Lyre Press, 2021), I wish Francisco Franco Would Love Me (Nixes Mate Books, 2018), Whiteness of Bone (Glass Lyre Press, 2016), La Portile Raiului (Ars Longa Press, Romania, 2010) translated into the Romanian by Flavia Cosma, Nothing Divine Here, (U Šoku Štampa., 2010), and Blood Soaked Dresses (Ibbetson, 2007).

Gloria is the author, with her father, Jack Mindock and her sister, Kellis Anna Dryer of the children’s book Little Brown Mouse. She also is the author of three chapbooks, Doppelganger (S. Press, 1992), Oh Angel (U Šoku Štampa, 2005), and Pleasure Trout (Muddy River Poetry Review Books, 2013).

Ash, was translated into Serbian by Milutin Durickovic and published by Alma Press in Belgrade in 2022. Ash, published by Glass Lyre Press, won the International Impact Award, the NYC Big Book Award, the Firebird Speak Up Talk Radio Award, The Pacific Book Award, the International Award- The Princess, Noble Poetry Skills, Art Club of Ragkonik in Smederevo, Serbia, a Distinguished Favorite for the Independent Book Award, and the Bronze Medal from the North American Book Awards. Ash was a finalist for the Feathered Quill Book Award, and received two honorable mentions from The Royal Dragonfly Award and The San Francisco Book Festival.

​Other awards include the Allen Ginsburg Award for Community Service by the Newton Publishing center, the Ibbetson Lifetime Achievement Award, the 5th and 40th Moon Prize from Writing in a Women’s Voice, numerous Pushcart nominations, a St. Botolph Award nomination, and 3 citations for Cervena Barva Press as an editor/publisher from the MA House of Representatives, and a fellowship from the Massachusetts Cultural Council distributed by the Somerville Arts Council.

Gloria’s work recently has appeared in Gargoyle, The James Dickey Review, 10 x 10, Ibbetson, Growth: Journal of Literature, Culture, & Art (Macedonia), Veritas Review, POÉMAME: revista abierta de poesie, (Spain) and others. Gloria was the Poet Laureate in Somerville, MA in 2017 & 2018.

Gloria is retired as a Clinical Director and Counselor in Addictions and now freelances teaching poetry workshops, editing manuscripts of poetry and fiction for writers, and producing video book trailers.