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Mary Meriam is the editor of Lavender Review and Filled with Breath.
She invented a form called Basic Me. See one by Catherine Tufariello at Mezzo Cammin.
Her poetry chapbook, The Countess of Flatbroke (afterword by Lillian Faderman), was published by Modern Metrics and received an award from the Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice. A second chapbook, The Poet's Zodiac is almost sold out at Seven Kitchens.
In 2010, her sonnet, "The Romance of Middle Age," was published at the Poetry Foundation and The New York Times. Another sonnet, "The Only Home I Know," won Honorable Mention in the New England Shakespeare Festival Sonnet Contest.
Yet another sonnet, "The Acrobats," won Honorable Mention in the Helen Schaible International Sonnet Contest.
Her poems and essays are published or forthcoming in OccuPoetry, Chronicles, The Brooklyner, Cascadia Subduction Zone, Measure, The Evansville Review, Verse Wisconsin, Mezzo Cammin, Light Quarterly, Literary Imagination, Think, Sentence: A Journal of Prose Poetics, The Gay & Lesbian Review, Journal of Lesbian Studies, Bridges: A Jewish Feminist Journal, Sixty-Six: The Journal of Sonnet Studies, and Gently Read Literature. Her poems are anthologized in Here Come the Brides! and Two Weeks and Gay & Gray and Hot Sonnets.
Her poems and essays are also published in Rattle, Rhythm, Praxilla, Alimentum, Lilt, The Lyric, OHCO, Umbrella, Tilt-a-Whirl, The Barefoot Muse, Horizon Review, The Raintown Review, Chiron Review, Poets' Quarterly, SN Review, Eclectica, The Mom Egg, Snakeskin, Rondeau Roundup, Lodestar Quarterly, Harrington Lesbian Literary Quarterly, and Sinister Wisdom.
Her poems have received wide circulation through radio and newspapers, including The New York Times, American Life in Poetry (US), The Spectator (UK), Windy City Times (Chicago), Bay Windows (New England), and Street Spirit (Bay Area). Her sonnet about waltzing with Julie Andrews was a finalist in A Prairie Home Companion’s Bed of Roses Love Sonnet Contest and read on National Public Radio (Segment One).
She has an MFA from Columbia University and a BA from Bennington College.