“Some Girls Have Auras of Bright Colors” — Excerpt from my memoir manuscript of the same name. Published by The Write Launch and the Featured Post for the month of September, 2020. https://thewritelaunch.com/2020/09/some-girls-have-auras-of-bright-colors/
“The Bra Factory” World Literature Today, 2014, Featured as One of 16 Working Class Poets: https://www.worldliteraturetoday.org/2013/november/bra-factory-sandee-gertz-umbach
The Bra Factory” poem shared by Working Class Poems site — a great site for diverse working class poetry here: https://amerlit.wixsite.com/working-class-poems/umbach
“Milltown Girls in Flight” poem reprinted at Every Day Poems: https://us2.campaign-archive.com/?u=9e5e4dd4731a9649c1dd1cf58&id=a8469973a6
“Sumac Tree Triumph” poem from The Pattern Maker’s Daughter, reprinted at Every Day Poems: http://us2.forward-to-friend.com/forward/show?u=9e5e4dd4731a9649c1dd1cf58&id=9866fbf9cb
The Invisible Hands of the Pattern Makers: Pittsburgh Post Gazette, Main Page Sunday Feature Section: An article I wrote to launch my book, The Pattern Maker’s Daughter, and to fully detail the fascinating work of pattern making, now considered a “lost art.” Thank you to all the pattern makers all over the world who reached out to me following this article. Your work and love of craft is not forgotten. https://www.post-gazette.com/ae/books/2012/02/19/The-Next-Page-The-invisible-industrial-hands-of-the-pattern-maker/stories/201202190615
Writing about my new Tennessee home and “What Lies Beneath Us” for Clarksville Online where I had a regular weekly column in 2014. https://www.clarksvilleonline.com/2014/06/26/salon-615-lies-beneath-us/
Many other editorials or articles in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Westsylvania Magazine, as well as my weekly column for the Washington Observer Reporter in Washington, Pennsylvania can be found archived online.
Poems published in literary journals including, Gargoyle, The Potomac Review, The Ledge, Mekler-Deahl Anthologies, Green Mountains Review, Poet Lore, Sistersong: Women Across Cultures, BARED Anthololgy, and more are in print only.