Field Notes

Margaret Rogal grew up in Connecticut, not far from where her grandfather Robert Silliman Judd--the subject of these poems--was born and raised, and where he lived his entire life. Although a New Englander by birth and nature, Rogal spent thirty years in Iowa and Illinois, raising two daughters and working as a librarian. A graduate of Colgate University, Rogal studied poetry at the Iowa Summer Writing Festival, Augustana College, and the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. Now a resident of Vermont, Rogal was a finalist for the Poetry of the Plains & Prairies Award and the Sundog Poetry Book Award. Her poetry has appeared in such journals as Common Ground Review, Broad Street, Zig Zag Lit Mag, Miramar, and SALT. Field Notes is her first book-length collection.