Norma Mahns Biography

Norma Mahns is born in Santa Barbara, California and lived most of her life in Ventura County California, USA. She studied writing at several Community Colleges and Universities. She has a bachelor's degree in business. Norma is a Veteran photographer for the United States Army. Norma 'was part of the thriving 1988-1993 Chicago poetry scene where the open mics around Wicker Park often heard her words.' She has been published by Chicago Poetry Press, by past underground magazines such as Lumpen Times 1993, LetterX, and by Veterans for Peace. She has one chap book published, on AMAZON.COM. It is titled 'Paper Plague' by Norma Mahns, copyright 1988, and is a collection of poems which portrays her fervent faith in Jesus, with a skewed flavor of the beat generation, Freudianism, existentialism, and humanism.