Libby Maxey

Libby Maxey is a senior editor and poetry editor at the online journal Literary Mama, where she has been a member of the staff for over a decade. Her poems have appeared in Crannóg, Stoneboat, Whale Road Review, Blue Unicorn, and elsewhere. She is among the winners of the Princemere Poetry Prize, the Helen Schaible International Sonnet Contest, and the Maria W. Faust Sonnet Contest, and her chapbook, Kairos (2019), won the Finishing Line Press New Women's Voices Contest. Her full-length collection, Indwelling (Resource Publications), was released last year. Her nonliterary activities include singing classical repertoire, ringing bells at Smith, and administering the Department of Classics at Amherst College.