Nightingale & Sparrow

Category: Authors

  • Lynne Schmidt

    Lynne Schmidt

    Poetry and Creative Nonfiction Contributor, Author

    Lynne Schmidt (she/her) is a mental health professional in Maine who writes poetry, memoir, and young adult. In addition to being a Maine Nonfiction Award Winner and PNWA finalist, her poetry has received the Honorable Mention from Joy of the Pen, and her chapbook Dead Dog Poems was an honorable mention from Pub House books. Her work has appeared in Soft Cartel, RESIST/RECLAIM (forthcoming), Neon Mariposa (forthcoming), Pussy Magic (forthcoming), Royal Rose, Sixty Four Best Poets of 2018 (forthcoming), 2018 Emerging Poets, Frost Meadow Review, Poets of Maine, Poets of New England, Maine Dog Magazine, Alyss Literary, UNE Magazine, Her Kind Vida, and many others. She is a former journalist and is the founder of AbortionChat and her social justice activism has allowed her to meet Michelle Obama and Cecile Richards. She has been and continues to be a featured poet at events throughout Maine. Lynne is a member of PNWA, NEPC, and SEWSA. She prefers the company of her three dogs and one cat to humans.

    Works in Nightingale & Sparrow

    Casualties, Remember to Drink Water

    Lynne Schmidt is the author of Gravity (Nightingale & Sparrow Press, 2019)

  • Juliette Sebock

    juliette-sebockJuliette Sebock

    Editor-In-Chief and Founder

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    Juliette Sebock is the author of Mistakes Were Made (2017), Micro (2019), How My Cat Saved My Life and Other Poems (2019, Bottlecap Press), and Boleyn (2020, Twist in Time Press), and has work forthcoming or appearing in a wide variety of publications.

    She is the founding editor of Nightingale & Sparrow, runs a lifestyle blog, For the Sake of Good Taste, and is a regular contributor with Marías at Sampaguitas, Royal Rose Mag, Memoir Mixtapes, and The Poetry Question. Currently, she is working on a variety of personal and freelance projects.

    When she isn’t writing (and sometimes when she is), she can be found with a cup of coffee and her cat, Fitz.

    Juliette can be reached at her website or across social media.