Ellie O'Leary

Ellie O’Leary’s writing has been a series of opportunities that include teaching poetry and memoir as well as organizing a writing program at the Pyramid Life Center - an Adirondacks retreat center, hosting a radio show, teaching at the Belfast (Maine) Senior College, curating the Freedom (Maine) Summer Reading Series and earning an MFA in Maine’s Stonecoast program. She grew up in the village of Freedom, Maine and is now on the Board of Directors of the Freedom Community Historical Society. She’s a resident of Amesbury, Massachusetts where she serves on the Amesbury Cultural Council and is Poet Laureate Emerita. She’s also the former Education Director of the Gloucester Writers Center. Ellie is the author of Breathe Here (2020, poetry) and Up Home Again (2023, memoir) both with North Country Press. She has always lived in New England, either Maine or Massachusetts, except for one year in Israel.