Education
She graduated from Vermont College with a Masters of Fine Arts in Poetry and has been a professor of college-level English.
She graduated from Vermont College with a Masters of Fine Arts in Poetry and has been a professor of college-level English.
She currently resides in Rockland, Maine. She has also published several collections of her own poetry, including Native Moons, Native Days, as well as Drink from Your Own Wells: a guide to richer writing. Bachofner recalls first becoming interested in writing poetry when she was six years old.
She was previously a midwife and labor and delivery Registered Nurse, and a freelance writer
Many have appeared literary journals including Prairie Schooner Journal, Main Street Rag, The Comstock Review, and Naugatuck River Review. She has been nominated for several literary awards and honors, including Editor of the Year by the Wordcraft Circle of Writers & Storytellers in 1999 and Writer of the Year for her poetry by that same group in 2000.
In 2009, Bachofner was invited to be a presenter of poetry by indigenous writers at the Maine Literary Festival in Camden, Maine. She was also named in the 2009-2010 publication of Marquis Who"s Who and made the short list (runner up) for individual works of poetry by the Maine Literary Festival in 2011.
In April 2012, she was named Rockland, Master of Engineering Poet Laureate by the City of Rockland, Maine.
She launched her latest collection, Native Moons, Native Days (2012) at the Three Poets Book Launch, hosted by the Camden Public Library. Bachofner"s poem, We Speak the White Manitoba"s Language, will appear in the anthology, Unraveling the Spreading Cloth of Time, edited by MariJo Moore and Trace A. DeMeyer. Bachofner frequently writes themed collections.
I Write In the Greenhouse includes poems about Maine and its people, including Edna Saint Vincent Millay and Andrew Wyeth.
Her other poems often describe Native American culture and tradition. This is an especially dominant theme in Native Moons, Native Days, where she asks what makes poetry "Indian".
