May 28, 2022
Kathleen Sullivan
Kathleen Sullivan is the co-editor of A Dangerous New World. Her poems also appeared in Balancing Act 2. She is a clinical social worker and lives in Freeport and Addison.
May 28, 2022
Meghan Sterling
Meghan Sterling is a writer and working mother living in Maine whose poetry is in Los Angeles Review, Colorado Review, Rhino Poetry, Hunger Mountain and many other journals. A multi-Pushcart nominee, Sterling has been a Hewnoaks Artist Colony Resident twice, a Martin Dibner Memorial Fellow, and was co-editor of A Dangerous New World: Maine Voices on the Climate Crisis (Littoral Books). Self-Portrait with Ghosts of the Diaspora (Harbor Editions), Comfort the Mourners (Everybody Press) and View from a Borrowed Field (Lily Poetry Review’s Paul Nemser Book Prize) came out in 2023.
May 28, 2022
Leslie Moore
Leslie Moore is a poet, printmaker, and pen-and-ink artist. She is the recipient of the 2018 Maine
Literary Award for Short Non-Fiction. Her collections of poetry and prints What Rough Beasts
(2021) and Grackledom (2023) were published by Littoral Books. She lives in Belfast, Maine,
where she is part-owner of the Local Color Gallery.
May 28, 2022
Jacqueline Moore
Jacqueline Moore grew up in Depression-era Greenwich Village, left for Europe in the early ’50s, moved to Ann Arbor in the ’70s, and later to Boston where she studied poetry with Seamus Heaney. She spent many years living off the grid in the Maine woods. Her collection of eco-poetry, Chasing the Grass, was published by Littoral in 2019. Her poems also appear in Balancing Act 2, A Dangerous New World, and Enough!
May 28, 2022
Claire Millikin
Claire Millikin is the author of six collections of poetry and the co-editor of Enough! Poems of Resistance and Protest published by Littoral in 2020, which won the 2021 Maine Literary Award for Anthologies. Her latest poetry collection is Elegiaca Americana (Littoral Books, 2022).
May 28, 2022
Gary Lawless
Gary Lawless has published 18 collections of poetry in the United States and five in Italy. He is the co-owner of Gulf of Maine Books in Brunswick, Maine, and the author, most recently, of How the Stones Came to Venice, published by Littoral Books in 2021.
May 28, 2022
Kate Kennedy
Kate Kennedy is a writer, editor, and former teacher. She taught writing at Portland High School
as well as at the University of Maine, and served as director of the Southern Maine Writing
Finalist for the Maine Literary Awards for Memoir; two editions of short biographies, Maine’s
Remarkable Women; and a novel, End Over End. Kate lives in Cape Elizabeth, Maine, with her
husband Nate Greene.
May 28, 2022
Agnes Bushell
Agnes Bushell is a writer and editor, the recipient of two Maine Literary Awards, professor emerita in Liberal Arts at Maine College of Art and Design, and co-founder of Littoral Books. Her most recent novel is Monkey.
May 28, 2022
Katherine Hagopian Berry
Katherine Hagopian Berry’s first collection of poetry, Mast Year, was published by Littoral in 2020. Her poetry has also appeared in Café Review, Frost Meadow Review, and in Balancing Act 2, Enough!, and Wait. She lives in Bridgton, Maine.
May 7, 2022
Gillian Burnes
Gillian Burnes’s stories have appeared in Glimmer Train, Split Lip, and The Dillydoun Review. She lives with her husband and daughter on the edge of her in-laws’ farm in central Maine and
works as a magazine copy editor. Soft Features—a 2023 Maine Literary Award finalist and 2024 All Books Considered Book Club selection—is her first novel.