Author: Lisa Tomey-Zonneveld

Lisa Tomey-Zonneveld is the founder/manager of Prolific Pulse Press LLC and a widely published poet and writer. She is an editor of numerous anthologies and for Fine Lines Journal. She is Poet Laureate Emeritus of Garden of Neuro Institute and is an organizer for Living Poetry in North Carolina. ProlificPulse.blog ProlificPulse.com
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Reflections of a Woman’s Life by Gypsie-Ami Offenbacher-Ferris – People are Talking About this book

Lisa Tomey-Zonneveld

Poet Gypsie-Ami Offenbacher-Ferris will touch your heart with tenderness at The Arrival of a baby girl “into the searing light painful brilliance of her existence into life.” Her Feelings in Color will move you through the whole spectrum of emotional light waves as she sinks into “His sea blue eyes lined with tiny rivers of broken vessels.” Each one of Gypsie-Ami’s poems vibrates with her own “personal catharsis” whose echoes will resonate with your own… even long after you finish reading her chapbook.

– Christine Moughamian, M.A.

Award-Winning Memoirist, Organizer of The Wilmington Write To Publish Group Meetup

As she warns us in her introduction, “This is not a feel-good book.” Ms. Offenbacher-Ferris’ Reflections of a Woman’s Life reveals a bleeding, broken heart, merciful only in its brevity.

The chapbook starts, appropriately enough, with The Arrival of a new life, still swaddled with her “mother’s richest loam” where joy is tempered with the stark reality of life.

And so it is throughout this powerful collection, closing with Reflections on life and its never-ending cycle, each happiness sliced by pain, love tainted with betrayal, life with all its color ending in death.

Here you’ll find raw emotions on full display, no filter, just heartfelt poems with earthy metaphors, throbbing on the page.

-Bartholomew Barker, Author of Milkshakes and Chilidogs: And Other Food Poems

From the moment Gypsie-Ami invites you into

her written world she warns you, the reader, to be prepared for an unexpected emotional

journey. And she definitely delivers. She dives deeply into the parts of ourselves we prefer to hide away in the dark. She pulls them out into the light helping us find humor in them, how to survive them, and how to move on. Her powerful poems contain surprising insight, joy, playfulness, and at times you cry along with her.

Wordplay and lyrical rhythms provide the perfect backdrop to transport and carry the reader on a whimsical, deeply soul rooted caravan ride where writer and reader share the emotional landscape.

-Koleen K. Telecky, M.S., CCC-SLP

Gypsie Ami Offenbacher-Ferris presents poems that are intelligent in conception and radiantly illuminating in reading. The compilation has thematic depth, presenting slices of real life. The collection is a valuable companion for poetry lovers

-Rose-Mary Harrington, A.R. Ammons Poetry Award 2025, MA University of Arizona

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Lisa Tomey-Zonneveld

Meet the Author:

Gypsie-Ami Offenbacher-Ferris lives in Southport, NC, USA.  Gypsie-Ami’s photographic artwork was chosen beside twenty-four other artist’s works by “Up Your Arts” and the City of Southport as winners in the fourth annual pole banner art project, “Raise Up Your Arts,” May through November 2026. 

She is a twice published poet in Cameron Art Museum’s Writers Respond to Art Program and was awarded the Certificate of Completion for completing the 2021 – 24 Hour Poetry Marathon and the 2022 – 24 Hour Poetry Marathon. Her poem “Wheels” was published in the 2021, 24 Hour Poetry Marathon Anthology. Her poem, “The Date”has been chosen for publication in the 2022 – 24 Hour Poetry Marathon.

She is a published author in Whisper’s & Echoes, an on-line literary magazine and in 50 Give or Take for her 50-word stories, “Love,” “The Wedding” and “The Sleep Doctor.”In Visual Verse with her poem “Mother Earth” and several editions of The Virtual Poetorium. Ami is also published in Spillwords Press with her stories, “No Ghosts This Christmas!,” “Look!” and “I Am Not A Man!”

Gypsie-Ami has had the honor of being published by Carrot Ranch Literary Community in their Baby Ducks Ate My Lunch Collection for her 99 word story, Duckling Survival Guide.

Gypsie-Ami writes flash fiction, short stories, creative non-fiction, and fiction as well as poetry. Her short story, “Conversations With My Neighbor” is published in the anthology, Trouble, by Daniel Boone Publishing. Ami received Honorable Mention in Tales from the Moonlit Path 2021, a yearly Halloween Issue titled Abandoned Places Halloween Challenge, for her short story, “Abandoned Memories.” Her short story “Grandmother And The Strawberry Moon”was chosen as a semi-finalist in Stories That Need to Be Told: The Contest.

Gypsie-Ami’s first chapbook of poetry and photography is titled Flowers Flowers Everywhere! She has written two stage plays to date and is currently completing her second action/adventure/romance preternatural novel.

Ami is a member of NCWN (North Carolina Writer’s Network) and WWN (Women Writer’s Network). Ami’s core writing group and the women who literally saved her life during her COVID-19 illness, Coastal Women’s Writer’s Group of Wilmington, NC.

Ami is known to her closest friends and relatives as Gypsie.