About The Author

Some people measure life in years. Gram measures it in poems, thousands of them, written in quiet corners while the world moved around her. She began scribbling verses as a child, tucking them away in well-worn notebooks as her military family packed and unpacked across continents. Those poems traveled with her, gathering the scent of each place she lived.

By seventy-five, she decided it was time to let them breathe. Out With the Old is her first collection, drawn from six decades of love, loss, politics, and the small moments that refuse to fade. Not every poem cut; she sifted through them like seashells, sharing here only the ones that still carried a pulse.

Her story winds through family histories as colorful as her own. A grandmother who learned to fly at fifty. Parents decorated for bravery and compassion, laid to rest with full military honors. Years spent sewing, creating, teaching, caring for loved ones in their most fragile moments. Eight foreign exchange students called her home their own for a while.

Now settled in Colorado, Gram writes with a sense of release, less for applause, more for the quiet hope that her words might meet someone else exactly where they are. Her poems, like the life that shaped them, hold both grit and grace.