The Saltwinds Poet

Jadene Felina (Acciavatti) Stevens was a widely published award-winning poet. Her poetry has appeared in Yankee Magazine, as well as The Christian Science Monitor, Cape Women Magazine, Pedestal Magazine, Muddy River Poetry Review, Brevities, The Aurorean, Prairie Schooner, Transnational Perspectives (Switzerland), Psychopoetica, Doors Out of Dorset (England), and elsewhere.

Her poems and prose have also been included in a number of anthologies: Crossing Boundaries - An International Anthology of Women's Experiences in Sport, edited by Susan J. Bandy, Anne S. Darden (1999), Heartbeat of New England: An Anthology of Contemporary Nature Poems, edited by James Fowler (2000), World of Water, World of Sand by Cape Women Creating and Shank Painter Press; etc.

Jadene was a three-time consecutive winner of the Phi Theta Kappa Nota Bene International Literary Awards (poetry), a three-time consecutive winner of the Phi Theta Kappa Regional Literary Awards (poetry), and received PTK's highest award, the International Citation Award (1997). She won several awards in the Writers Digest Poetry Competitions, The New England Poetry Club Poetry Competitions, The Arkansas Writer's Conference Awards, The Katherine Lee Bates Poetry Competitions, as well as others.

Stevens was founder and Director of The Saltwinds Poets, on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Stevens was co-editor and layout designer of the cover art for the Cape Cod Community College Poetry Anthology, Dancing On Water (2002), which included not only student/staff poems, but work from such poets as Martin Espada and Nikki Giovani. She also designed and edited a chapbook for Cape Cod Community College's "Festival of Cultural Diversity," Common Roots, Common Ground (2001), which also included work by students, staff, and noted poets. Stevens was editor and layout/production designer for an anthology titled,Village Poets of Sandwich, numerous chapbooks for First Night, Chatham, and many more chapbooks.  Jadene was a three-time consecutive winner of the Phi Theta Kappa (PKT) Nota Bene International Literary Awards (poetry), a three-time consecutive winner of the Phi Theta Kappa Regional Literary Awards (poetry) and received PTK's highest award, the International Citation Award (1997). She won several awards in the Writers Digest Poetry Competitions, The New England Poetry Club Poetry Competitions, The Arkansas Writer's Conference Awards, The Katherine Lee Bates Poetry Competitions, as well as others.

Jadene was a native to New England, having grown up around the greater Boston area. She relocated to Cape Cod, where she raised her two daughters, while continuing her two passions - writing and gardening.  Jadene was a graduate of Norwich University.