She has been published in Bywords.ca and won Honourable Mention in the John Newlove Poetry Award 2006, for her poem Burnt Forest. The poem featured here is part of her first collection of poetry, due to be published by Fall 2008. Rona Shaffran’s poems have been read in Australia, at the Melbourne Poets Society 2005 and International Poetry Festival in 2006, and exhibited there in conjunction with five life drawing exhibitions. Her poems has also been translated into Italian and read in Italy