Linda Flaherty Haltmaier is an award-winning writer and the Poet Laureate of Andover, Massachusetts. She is the winner of the Homebound Publications Poetry Prize for her full-length collection, "Rolling up the Sky" (2016). Her debut chapbook, "Catch and Release", was published by Finishing Line Press. Her poetry has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and has appeared in journals and anthologies including Wildness: Voices of the Sacred Landscape, Ink and Letters, Poetry Breakfast, and more. She was named a finalist for the Princemere Poetry Prize and the Tucson Festival of the Book Award. She has earned residencies at the Noepe Center for the Literary Arts on Martha’s Vineyard and been a poetry contributor at the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. A Harvard graduate, Linda lives on Boston’s North Shore with her husband and daughter––and strolls the beach in search of blue sea glass.