Friends and Family: Poems by Annette Opalczynski

 Annette Opalczynski lives in New Castle, Delaware. She has worked for the Delaware Department of Health and Social Services Procurement Office for over 20 years. Her poems have been published in various magazines, including The North American Review, The Paterson Literary Review, Oberon, and The Sun. In 2009, she won Farmingdale State College’s Paumanok Poetry Prize and participated in the college’s visiting writers series. Nostalgia Press awarded Annette the Heart Poetry Award in 2014. Later that same year, she was a finalist for the Helen Kay Chapbook Prize from Evening Street Press. Friends and Family is her first published chapbook.