Marilyn Lerch

Marilyn Lerch grew up in industrial northwestern Indiana and attended Indiana University, earning degrees in English and Education. She also has a Masters Degree from the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology in Palo Alto, California. In Washington, D.C. beginning in the late sixties, she taught high school English and participated in many movements for social change, including the Vietnam Antiwar Movement, Women's Liberation, Gay Rights. She made two trips to Central America with U.S. Labor groups in the 1980's to gather information about and lend support to trade unionists who opposed U.S. intervention in the region. Ms. Lerch retired from teaching in 1995, moved to Sackville, New Brunswick, and became a permanent resident in 2001. With her partner, Janet, she co-facilitates the Amherst-Sackville PFLAG (Parents and Friends of Lesbians, Gays, Transgendered, Transsexual People) and chairs a citizens' committee that builds bridges between Dorchester Correctional Institution and the surrounding communities. She served for several years on the Board of the Writers' Federation of New Brunswick.

Her poetry has appeared in journals both here and in the U.S. "Lambs & Llamas, Ewes & Me", a handset cycle of poems about shepherding in Alberta was published in 2001 by Springbank Press, Sundre, Alberta. Moon Loves Its Light, her first collection of poetry, was published in March 2004 by Morgaine House, Montreal, Quebec. She is working on her second book of poetry and learning the subtleties of riding Engish saddle.

Selected Publications
Moon Loves Its Light (Morgaine House, 2004) ISBN 0-9732787-1-4.
Lambs & Llamas, Ewes & Me (Springbank Press, 2001) ISBN Hand set, printed by Jamie Sycr, Bergen, Alberta.

Books in Print
Lerch, Marilyn
Moon Loves Its Light, Poetry (Morgaine House, 2004) ISBN 0-9732787-1-4, $15.95.

Marilyn Lerch, Sackville, New Brunswick.
mlerch@nbnet.nb.ca

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