About
Rosemary Herbert is a writer whose work spans genres. Her poetry chapbook Sisters in Time, available from Finishing Line Press beginning February 17, 2026, is inspired by her experience on a fourth-century, Roman-era archeological dig in Winchester, England. Her poem “Grave Finds” was named Notable in the 2024 Coniston Prize competition, and her poems have been published or are forthcoming in Tupelo Quarterly, Radar Poetry, The Last Milkweed (Tupelo Press), Remembering William Butler Yeats (Moonstone Arts Center), The Closed Eye Open and more. Her interviews appear in The Paris Review and Harvard Review. Her eight books in the crime and mystery genre include The Oxford Companion to Crime & Mystery Writing, A New Omnibus of Crime, and Front Page Teaser: A Liz Higgins Mystery. A longtime New Englander, she now lives in Akron, Ohio. www rosemaryherbert.com
Featured Work
Sisters in Time: Poetry
If ever there was a gift to a poet, it is the chance to unearth the remains of a woman of her age, if not of her time. Stemming from Rosemary Herbert’s work uncovering a pagan burial in a fourth-century, Roman-era, Christian cemetery in Winchester, England, Sisters in Time depicts life on an archeological dig, and revels in ruminations on the strangely intimate and reverent experience of becoming acquainted – through their bones and grave finds – with figures from the distant past. These poems transport the reader to the juncture of then and now, where the lives of two women separated by centuries become as surely joined as one skeleton’s mended bones. Here, the poet finds herself fated to give new life to her unknown sister in time, whose eternal resting place she revealed in the pursuit of archeological history.
