New Program Director

After a thorough search and interview process, we are excited to announce that Meghan Sterling has joined MWPA as our new program director. Meghan brings significant experience as a writer, teacher, and literary organizer to our team. Please join us in welcoming her. Please give her some time to settle in, and you can reach her at meghan@mainewriters.org or 207-228-8257.

Meghan Sterling’s poetry has appeared in Rattle, Rust & Moth, SWIMM, Sky Island Journal, River Heron Review, and many others, and was the winner of Sweet Literary’s 2021 Annual Poetry Contest and a Finalist in River Heron Review’s 2021 Annual Poetry Contest.  She is Associate Poetry Editor of The Maine Review, a Hewnoaks Artist Colony resident in 2019 and 2021, and her debut collection, These Few Seeds, came out in 2021 from Terrapin Books.  Before joining MWPA, Sterling taught poetry workshops and worked as a social media manager and marketing writer. She received her undergraduate degree in Literature from Bard College and her graduate degree in writing from Wesleyan University. She and her family live in Portland.