Lynne Schmidt

Volume 11 spring/summer 2023

Lynne Schmidt is the grandchild of a Holocaust survivor, and a mental health professional with a focus in trauma and healing. They are the winner of the 2021 The Poetry Question Chapbook Award for their chapbook, Sexytime, and the 2020 New Women’s Voices Contest for their chapbook, Dead Dog Poems. Other chapbooks include Gravity (Nightingale and Sparrow Press) which was listed as one of the 100 Best Breakup Books of All Time by Book Authority, and On Becoming a Role Model (Thirty West), which was featured on The Wardrobe’s Best Dressed for PTSD Awareness Week. In 2012 they started the project, AbortionChat, which aims to lessen the stigma around abortion. When given the choice, Lynne prefers the company of her pack of dogs and one cat to humans.

Ramona Allen

Volume 10 fall/winter 2022

Mary A. Tracy

Volume 9 spring/summer 2022

Rheta Mering

Volume 8 Fall 2021

Rachel Maher

Volume 7 May 2021

Rachel Maher believes a poem is a picture painted with words. As an artist, writing poetry gives her a chance to use words instead of her brush to describe and interpret what she experiences in her world. She has enjoyed publication several times in Frost Meadow Review and her artwork has graced many of the covers as well.  She was recognized by the Peterborough Poetry Society with an honorable mention in June 2020, and was included in the Underground Writers Association’s Poets of New England anthology in 2018.  Rachel is a native Mainer who lives, paints, and writes in Southern Maine.  Her website is www.rmaherfineart.com.

Katherine Hagopian Berry

Photo Credit: Robert Diamante

Volume 6 November 2020

Katherine Hagopian Berry has appeared in the Café Review, Deep Water, A Dangerous New World: Maine Voices on the Climate Crisis, Balancing Act II: An Anthology of Poetry by Fifty Maine Women, and Glass: Poet’s Resist and Frost Meadow Review and has been a finalist and showcase performer at the Belfast Poetry Festival. Her first collection of poetry, Mast Year, is available from Littoral Books at https://littoralbooks.com/product/mast-year-poems-by-katherine-hagopian-berry/.
Katherine lives and writes in Bridgton, Maine.

Meghan Sterling

Volume 5 May 2020

Meghan Sterling lives in Portland with her husband, Matthew, daughter Adeline, and cat, Little Bea. She is co-editor of the anthology, A Dangerous New World: Maine Voices on the Climate Crisis, which is coming out in the Fall of 2019. Her work has been published in Glass: A Journal of Poetry, Driftwood Press, lingerpost, the Chronogram, red paint hill, Balancing Act, the Sandy River Review, Sky Island Journal, and others, and is forthcoming in Literary Mama and Third Wednesday.  Her chapbook, How We Drift, was published by Blue Lyra Press in September 2016. She is a poetry reader for the Maine Review, and she will be attending a residency at Hewnoaks Artists’ Colony in September, 2019. Her work can be found at meghansterling.com.

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Richard Foerster

Volume 4 November 2019

Richard Foerster was born in the Bronx, New York, the son of German immigrants, and holds degrees in English literature from Fordham College and the University of Virginia. He is the author of eight poetry collections: Sudden Harbor (1992) and Patterns of Descent (1993), published by Orchises Press; Trillium (1998), Double Going (2002), and The Burning of Troy (2006), published by BOA Editions; Penetralia (2011) and River Road (2015), published by Texas Review Press; and Boy on a Doorstep: New and Selected Poems (2019), published by Tiger Bark Press.

Foerster has been the recipient of numerous honors, including the “Discovery”/The Nation Award, Poetry magazine’s Bess Hokin Prize, a Maine Arts Commission Fellowship, the Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship, and two National Endowment for the Arts Poetry Fellowships—as well as two Maine Literary Awards for Poetry. Since the late 1970s, his work has appeared widely in magazines and anthologies, including The Best American Poetry, Kenyon Review, TriQuarterly, The Gettysburg Review, Boulevard, The Southern Review, and Poetry.

He has worked as a lexicographer, educational writer, typesetter, teacher, and editor of the literary magazines Chelsea and Chautauqua Literary Journal. For the last 33 years, he has lived on the coast of southern Maine.

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Photo Credit: Jackie Matthews

Maya Williams

Volume 3 May 2019

Maya Williams (she/hers & they/them) is a religious queer mixed race Black suicide survivor who lives in Portland, Maine. She is a slam poet with a background in social work and English. She her publications include pieces in glitterMOB, Underground Writers Association, The Occulum Journal, Soft Cartel, INTER, and The Tempest. Check out her incredible work including videos of her performing “My Depression Is” on her website.

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Rachel Kennedy-Smith Ph.D.

Volume 2 November 2018

Rachel Kennedy-Smith Ph.D. is our featured poet in FMR volume 2! Rachel is a poet and a scientist with biomedical and neuroscience expertise. We can’t wait to feature her work and share her perspective with our readers.

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Photo by Tim Sullivan

Joanna Hynd

Volume 1 May 2018

Rockland’s Poet Laureate, Joanna Hynd, was our featured poet for the May 2018 edition! Purchase FMR volume 1 to read her great work and learn about her relationship to the written word! @EdgyGlassesGirl #RocklandPoetry