As a freelance writer, editor, speaker and coach, Darlyn Finch has received awards for her efforts in several literary forms. By day, she is a technical writer for an engineering firm. In the evenings, she pursues her Master of Fine Arts degree from Spalding University. When she's not busy working, writing, or reading, she brings the Central Florida writing community together with her e-mail newsletter Scribbles.

Darlyn has several publication credits to her name, and she's a repeat winner at the Mt. Dora Festival of Music and Literature.

From December 2006 - February 2007, Darlyn was the writer in residence at the Jack Kerouac House Project in Orlando, Florida. Click here to view a video of her farewell reading at the Kerouac house.

Her first book, Red Wax Rose, a poetry and short story collection, was published by Shady Lane Press in February, 2007.

Her second, Three Houses, a collection of love poems with collaborator Brad Kuhn, she published through Scribbles in February, 2008.

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Poetry duet by Brad Kuhn and Darlyn Finch
at the Loaded Hog in downtown Orlando
on February 10, 2006.

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