Born in Matewan, West Virginia, and raised in Metro Detroit, Iris Lee Underwood is a Michigan award-winning journalist, poet, and author. She’s a past president of Detroit Working Writers (2003-2005), writer in residence for the former Borders Bookstores (1997-2009) and the Troy Public Library, Troy, Michigan (1998-2013). Underwood writes a weekly column for the Tri-City Times, Imlay City, MI.
Her byline also appeared in The MacGuffin, Farming Magazine, Woods & Water, Michigan Gardener, edibleWOW, Michigan History Magazine, and Kentucky and West Virginia newspapers. She self-published Encouraging Words for All Seasons (2001), Growing Lavender & Other Poems (2007), and The Mantle, a novel (2018). To encourage the craft of poetry, Underwood sponsors the annual Yule Love It Lavender Farm Poetry Contest. From 2004-2014, Underwood owned and operated Yule Love It Lavender Farm in north Oakland County, Michigan, where she resides with her husband, cats, hens, and honeybees. For book talks, discussions, and signings, please contact Iris at 248-628-7814, or with the form below. |
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