Artist Statement:

Lynne Schmidt (she/they) is the queer, neurodivergent grandchild of a Holocaust survivor, and a mental health professional with a focus in trauma and healing. They are the 2025 Maine Arts Fellow, the second-place winner of the 2024 National Federation of State Poetry Societies Founders Contest, winner of the 2021 The Poetry Question Chapbook Contest, 2020 New Women's Voices Contest, a 2024 and 2020 Pushcart nominee, and an eleven time Best of the Net nominee. Lynne is the author of the chapbooks, The Unaccounted For Circles Of Hell, SexyTime, Dead Dog Poems, and Gravity. In 2012 they started the project, AbortionChat, which aims to lessen the stigma around abortion. When given the choice, Lynne prefers the company of her pack of dogs and one cat to humans.

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