Biography

I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images passing by which I cannot live in, make love to, possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy.

Anais Nin

The Image of a Writer

Coleen T. Houlihan is a writer who studied writing at Wellesley College where she received her BA.  She has featured at several poetry venues such as: Stone Soup, Best Sellers, A Tapestry of Voices, Sherman Café and Walden Poetry Series and published poetry in Main Street Rag, Poesy, Bellowing Ark, The Alewife, The Wilderness House Literary Review, Ibbetson Street Press, Spoonful: A Gathering of Stone Soup Poets, MoJo! The Maps One Journal, Spare Change, as well as abroad.

Interest in human nature has ledColeen to write books featuring children, adults and to look at our dualities, the positive qualities we share, as well as the negative.

An only child, Coleen grew up in Connecticut and has lived in New Hampshire and Massachusetts where she currently resides.  Aside from a love of writing and reading, Coleen enjoys movies, specifically 1970s horror films (it’s not her fault, she was raised on them), dancing, music, travel, animals, food, beauty and everything else fabulous. She is also a member of Congo Action Now (CAN) an organization determined to stop the brutal use of rape in the DRC war: www.congoactionnow.weebly.com.

Photo by Bill Perrault