Dreama Frisk has published in Wild Sweet Notes, Fifty Years of West Virginia Poetry, Inside Out (Quaker Journal), The Charleston Gazette (WV), and Journal of Virginia Writers, juried for placement at Tamarack (WV arts and crafts center). She graduated from West Virginia University and University of Virginia.

Dreama taught in Florida schools where she also worked with the American Federation of Teachers. In Arlington, Virginia she taught World History to young adults in a special program.  She has studied with Marc Harshman, WV poet laureate, and Barbara Kingsolver, and led a writers’ group, Ice Mountain Writers, at Romney, West Virginia where she lived with her husband in a nearby cabin. She currently lives in Arlington, Virginia.

Dreama is the author Ivory Hollyhock, a collection of poems and her first novel, Before We Left the Land. Her daughter, Laura Frisk edited and published Ivory Hollyhock under her imprint, 6 July Press while working at Harper Collins. Dreama’s poems have been published in Wild, Sweet Notes, Fifty Years of West Virginia Poetry, “Grab-a-Nickel 2010,” “Seeds and Crystals,” “Urban Campfire,” Arlington Artsletter and The Charleston Gazette (WV), and other journals. A short story, “A Hunter’s Moon,” won third place in the West Virginia Writer’s Contest. Ivory Hollyhock was juried for placement at Tamarack, art and craft center in West Virgiinia. The poetry collection was also featured on West Virginia Public Television and was selected for placement in the Virginia Room in Arlington, Virginia Public Library.

“On a Greyhound Bus,” a short story about travel during segregation, was published in Mountain Mist. Chapters of her novel and short stories have won places in five contests in the West Virginia Writer’s Contest. Hamilton Stone selected a chapter from the novel in Issue 32.

Frank George played bagpipes to accompany her reading at Taylor Books in Charleston, WV. For several years, she convened a writers group, Ice Mountain Writers, in Romney, WV.