Julene Waffle is a teacher in Morris Central School, in a rural Upstate New York community. She has been an adjunct lecturer in Education at SUNY Oneonta and Hartwick College. At Morris, she advises several clubs and coaches the varsity softball team. She's active in her church and local scouting unit. She co-owns Colonial Ridge Golf Course in Laurens, NY, with husband Jeff Waffle and mother-in-law Mona Waffle. She is a mother of three sons, three cats, two dogs, and a fish; and she'd probably mother more, if she had room. She earned a BA in English with emphases in American Literature, Writing, and Education, as well as a Religious Studies Minor at Hartwick College, Oneonta, NY. In addition, she earned her MS in English Education from Binghamton University. Her work has appeared in The Daily Star, The English Record; River, Blood, and Corn: Literary Journal, A Community of Voices, and an anthology of poems entitled Planet in Crisis (FootHills Publishing, 2020). She deeply hopes her work speaks to others it has spoken to her.
