Ellie O'Leary

Ellie O’Leary’s writing has brought her opportunities that include teaching poetry and memoir as well as organizing a new writing program at an Adirondacks retreat center, hosting a radio show, teaching at the Belfast (Maine) Senior College, and earning an MFA in Maine’s Stonecoast program. She grew up in the village of Freedom, Maine and is now a resident of Amesbury, Massachusetts where she serves as Poet Laureate. She is the Education Director of the Gloucester Writers Center. Ellie is the author of Breathe Here (North Country Press, 2020, poetry) and Up Home Again (North Country Press, 2023, memoir). She has always lived in New England, either Maine or Massachusetts, except for one year in Israel.