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Libby Maxey has a BA in English from Whitman College and an MA in medieval studies from Cornell University. She is a senior editor with the online journal Literary Mama, where she has been on staff since 2012. Her poems have appeared in Emrys, Mezzo Cammin, Crannóg, The Maynard, and elsewhere. Kairos, her first chapbook, won the 2018 New Women’s Voices contest at Finishing Line Press. She has also won the Princemere Poetry Prize (2021) and the Helen Schaible International Sonnet Contest (2023), and has been awarded a Laureate's Prize in the Maria W. Faust Sonnet Contest (2023). Her nonliterary activities include singing classical repertoire, mothering sons, and administering the Department of Classics at Amherst College. ...more

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The Truth About Lorin Jones

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