M. deSalle Horchler
Wondering wandering logophile philologist earthling of the kingdom Animalia
also
Wondering logophile philologist wanderer of the kingdom Plantae
and webwriter (Kingdom undetermined)
M. deSalle Horchler was born in a country that some say (with authority) does not exist. Does it? She remembers being there, and while there, she wrote in French (Pourquoi pas?) and earned several awards for her short stories and poems, among them the Prix du Jeune Poète. After she moved to America, she worked in an embassy in Washington, D.C. (not as glamorous as it sounds), and then in upstate New York as a free-lance journalist before starting a series of fiber-related businesses, including a full-scale spinning mill , a fiber farm where she raised several hundred sheep, angora goats and over 15o angora rabbits, and a successful fiber arts catalog and online source (The Woolery) which was sold in 2008. In 2009, she won recognition for several of her haikus which were published by Interweave Press. Within the past two years she won the Seven Hills First Prize for Short Story Fiction (for a story entitled Sponsor) and two Second Prizes for Flash Fiction (Release, and First Love). She also won a Prize in the Penumbra Poetry Contest for one of her poems (Bowl of Cherries), an Honorable Mention for another (Meherrin River), and a Prize for a haiku (My jailer, named Rain). Some of the stories and poems are part of the Seven Hills Review 2012 now available from Amazon and at The Bookshelf in Thomasville, Georgia. Her haiku and the story First Love have been published in the 2014 Seven Hills Review.
M. deSalle Horchler lives in Thomasville, Georgia. She has almost finished her first novel, TO BE THE DRAGONFLY, is at work on another one and in the middle of translating someone else’s novel from French into English.