hoofprints on the roof   
I don’t believe in Santa
must be unicorns

Poet Elaine Sorrentino (she/her) has been published in Minerva Rising, Willawaw Journal, Glass: A Journal of Poetry, Ekphrastic Review, Gyroscope Review, Quartet Journal, Writing in a Woman’s Voice, Global Poemic, ONE ART: a journal of poetry, Muddy River Poetry Review, Etched Onyx Magazine, Agape Review, wildamorris.blogspot.com, and Haiku Universe. She is the Communications Director at South Shore Conservatory in Hingham, MA, where she creates promotional and first-person content for press and for a blog called SSC Musings, and is facilitator of the Duxbury Poetry Circle.

In 2009, she started a tradition of posting weekly light-hearted, feel-good 5-7-5 poems on Facebook for “Haiku Tuesday” which has developed a respectable following over the years. Humor is a familiar element in much of her poetry. A two-time breast cancer survivor, Elaine, along with poet Dzvinia Orlowsky, conceptualized and presented a program called Pink LemonAid in 2019, where writers, artists and musicians were invited to share art inspired by their experience with breast cancer—either as a survivor or as support for a loved one. They are planning to present a second version of this awareness program to a wider audience in 2025.

Elaine, who graduated from Suffolk University with a degree in journalism, makes her home in Massachusetts with her musician husband and various farm animals who wander into their yard. Her first poetry collection, Belly Dancing in a Brown Sweatsuit, is in production at Kelsay Books.