About

Meghan Sterling lives in Gardiner, Maine with her family. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in Rhino Poetry, The Los Angeles Review, Rattle, Colorado Review, Pinch Journal, Radar Poetry, Rust & Moth, SWIMM, The West Review, Pirene’s Fountain, the Inflectionist Review, Rise Up Review, the Mom Egg Review and many others.  Her chapbook, How We Drift, was published by Blue Lyra Press. She was Featured Poet in Frost Meadow Review’s Spring 2020 issue, a Dibner Fellow at the 2020 Black Fly Writer’s Retreat, and a Hewnoaks Artists’ Colony Resident in 2019 and 2021. She was co-editor of the anthology, A Dangerous New World: Maine Voices on the Climate Crisis, published by Littoral Books.  Her debut full-length poetry collection, These Few Seeds (Terrapin Books) came out in 2021 and was shortlisted for the Eric Offer Grand Prize Award. Her second full-length collection, View from a Borrowed Field, won Lily Poetry Review’s Paul Nemser Book Prize and came out in March 2023. Her chapbook, Self-Portrait with Ghosts of the Diaspora (Harbor Editions) came out in April 2023. Her third full-length collection, Comfort the Mourners (Everybody Press) came out summer 2023. You Are Here to Break Apart (Lily Poetry Review Press), came out in April, 2025 and Sick Poems from the Lovebed (Harbor Editions) is forthcoming in 2026. When she isn’t writing poetry, being a mom or going for walks in the cemetery, she is an artist mentor at Spindleworks Gardiner, teaches workshops and works as a professional writer.

Garrison Keillor read a poem from her collection These Few Seeds on December 5, 2021. Listen HERE.

An interview with her about a poetry workshop she conducted in Asheville, NC and her poetry practice can be found at https://wncwoman.com/2015/11/meghan-sterling-poet-and-teacher/.

One of her poems from A Dangerous New World was read on Richard Blanco’s A Lesson on Eco-Poetry on the program The Village Voice

Her poem, Loon Stabs Eagle Through the Heart the Same Week George Floyd is Murdered was read on Maine Public Radio February 5th, 2021: Listen Here.

For information about poetry workshops, editing, or if you simply want to get in touch with me, email me at meghansterling36@gmail.com

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