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Holly Brians Ragusa

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CityBeat article April 2023 names MET THE END the BEST TRUE-CRIME MEMOIR THAT CUTS AWAY SENSATIONALI
True-Crime Survival Memoir Met the End - Debut Book

MET THE END is a 2023 Best In Cincinnati

& an Eric Hoffer Award Finalist

Find & support a bookstore  

Joseph Beth Cincinnati & Barnes & Noble 

Kindle Ebook & Scribd Ebook  

On Audible

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Second Wednesdays of Month 2025

Walnut Street Poetry Society Co-Chair with Norman Finkelstein at The Mercantile Library

11:45am EST

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1:15pm

414 Walnut St, Cincinnati, OH 45202

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Second Wednesdays of Month 2025

Walnut Street Poetry Society Co-Chair with Norman Finkelstein at The Mercantile Library

Join us for deep dives into poets of Rebirth this year. Every Second Wednesday in the Poetry Room at The Mercantile Library (sans summer mon...

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11:45am EST

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1:15pm

414 Walnut St, Cincinnati, OH 45202

10/10/2025

America's River Roots- Ohio Poetry Association Poetry Reading

10am EST

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11:30pm

Riverfront, Cincinnati, OH 45202

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10/10/2025

America's River Roots- Ohio Poetry Association Poetry Reading

Poet Gathering - River, Community & Freedom themed Poetry Reading with Cincinnati Poet Laureate and other featured readers to kick off the O...

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10am EST

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11:30pm

Riverfront, Cincinnati, OH 45202

9/25/2025

Dying to Write Haiku - Workshop HNA Intl. Conference

9am PCT

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9:50am

Holiday Inn Golden Gateway at 1500 Van Ness Avenue San Francisco CA

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9/25/2025

Dying to Write Haiku - Workshop HNA Intl. Conference

At Haiku North America Conference in San Francisco- HBR will present the workshop- Dying to Write Haiku: Death has long buried itself in the...

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9am PCT

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9:50am

Holiday Inn Golden Gateway at 1500 Van Ness Avenue San Francisco CA

7/22-28/2025

National Federation of State Poetry Societies - Albuquerque, NM

9am MST

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10:30pm

12-1:30 EST Virtual

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7/22-28/2025

National Federation of State Poetry Societies - Albuquerque, NM

Representing Ohio Poetry Association as Board President  and for Plenary & Attendee Events. Virtual Conference attendance via Zoom registrat...

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9am MST

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10:30pm

12-1:30 EST Virtual

7/17/2025

Harnessing the Power of Digital Platforms for America250 -

12pm EST

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1:30pm

12-1:30 EST Virtual

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7/17/2025

Harnessing the Power of Digital Platforms for America250 -

Speaking with PigeonTech about America's River Roots and the Apps associated with the festival leading to the nation's 250th! Event App, Fre...

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12pm EST

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1:30pm

12-1:30 EST Virtual

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Debut Book

Met the End

Available in Print  &  on Audible

Certainty Lacks Imagination - Poetry Collection

Tilt a World

Available Now

Invest your time in living. Dying to Know Myself in Time

Dying to Know Myself in time

Available Now

Debut Poetry Collection

Inverse; Informed Thoughts By An Unfit Poet

Available Now

About Me

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Writer, poet, speaker, student of life, Cincinnati native, receptive traveler; I am a global citizen serving nonprofits in the arts, history & education. 

I seek to build bridges within my community, 

I love calling Over-the-Rhine, home.  




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My overactive imagination relied on books and journaling. Vulnerability writes the truest words.

Writing reveals where we lay dormant creatively.  

I continue to write...One word in front of the other.

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This life isn't meant to be walked alone.
Connect, find support, read, relate, 

become who you want to be. 

Working for a more dignified, just, less combative world, hand in hand with my fellow travelers.

LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

I would like to acknowledge that I live and work on land that for more than 15,000 years was preserved in partnership with its natural condition by the indigenous Osage, Myaamia, Shwandasse Tula (Shawanwaki/Shawnee) and Kaskaskia tribes as well as the Hopewell & Adena Culture peoples. This Ohio Valley region, before colonization,  was kept pristine by original inhabitants & have descendants today striving to protect and to reclaim it. 


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