Biography
Lorrie Wolfe grew up in Denver, Colorado where she started writing haiku at the age of nine. She still writes haiku and a variety of other forms of poetry. She is passionate about the power of words, the power of volunteers, and creating community. Lorrie worked for 25 years as a community organizer and developer of nonprofit and governmental human services programs. She now maintains a freelance technical writing and editing business – in Fort Collins, and is a partner is BOOKBUILD Services, which specializes in providing editing and design services for poets who wish to self-publish.
Thanks to an extensive network, Lorrie sends out announcements about Colorado and national poetry events to over 400 Colorado poets nearly every day.
She is a member of Northern Colorado Writers, the Columbine Poets of Colorado, and the National Federation of State Poetry Societies. Lorrie was named Poet of the Year for 2014-2015 at the Ziggies Poetry Festival in Denver. She served as the poetry editor for RISE: An Anthology of Change, which won the 2020 Colorado Book Award.
Lorrie has won many state and national awards. In 2023, her book of eco-human poetry won the Fledge Poetry Chapbook Award from Middle Creek Press. Her poems have been nominated twice for the Pushcart Prize.
Her work has appeared in The Mountain, Plant-Human Quarterly, Progenitor Journal, and many others. She is a magna cum laude graduate of Colorado State University. Her favorite two-word mantra is, “Show up.
