Featured Work
Jody Collins attended Fullerton Junior College where she majored in English and Journalism and holds a B.A. in Liberal Studies and Teaching Credential from Fresno State University, 1991. In addition to spending 20-plus years in the classroom, she’s also been writing online and in print for over 25 years. She is the author of Mining the Bright Birds: Poems of Longing for Home, (Wipf & Stock, 2023), an independently published ebook “Emmanuel Poems-Verses for the Holidays,” (2024) as well as “Hearts on Pilgrimage-Poems & Prayers,” (2021) and “Living the Season Well-Reclaiming Christmas” (2017, rev. 2018). You can find her online at her website and on Pinterest at AuthorJodyLeeCollins
Featured Elsewhere
Essays & Interviews, Print & Digital
- On Starbuck’s Time, (in)courage magazine
- Poetry in the Classroom, Tweetspeak Poetry
- Interview with poet Laura Reece Hogan, Dappled Things
- Interview with poet Laura Kauffman, Whale Road Review
- Publishing, Platform, and Perspective with Dr. Karen Swallow Prior on ‘The Priory’
- Poetry and Posterity-Interview-My Journey to Becoming a Poet and What I Found Along the Way on ‘Beyond the Bookshelf’ with Matthew Long
Video + Podcast Interviews
- Video Interview – You Tube“I am From” Poem and Conversation
- Writing Off Social Podcast, Episode 24: Finding Your Reader Through Community Connections
- Un-Perfect Podcast, Episode 36: While Waiting: How to Make the Most of Waiting Through Slower Moments
- The Thing with Feathers Podcast, Episode 47: Mining the Bright Birds Book Interview with Courtney Ellis
- Believe to See Podcast, Why People Shouldn’t be Afraid of Poetry

Poetry
- Exodus 13 – Ekstasis Magazine
- Leave Go – Ekstasis Magazine
- Wholly Spirit – Fathom Magazine
- Gilt Gift – Awake our Hearts Online Mag
- Celestial Bodies – Poems for Ephesians, edited by D.S. Martin
- Silent Chorus – Ekstasis Magazine
- The Quiet Season – Clayjar Review, Practice Resurrection Issue
- Wayfinding in Spring and Other Poems – The Way Back to Ourselves Journal, Renaissance Issue
Digital
- Ekstasis Magazine—Exodus 13, Leave Go, Silent Chorus
- Fathom Magazine— Wholly Spirit
- Poems for Ephesians, edited by D.S. Martin— Celestial Bodies
- Commonplace Magazine, Poem & Essay in the Preservation Issue
- Joyful Life Magazine-Summer 2020, Delight Issue

