We are excited to host not one, but two outstanding Maine writers!

Meghan Sterling, poet and editor from Gardiner, and Sidney wild child, now long-time Wyoming resident sid sibo invite visitors into conversation about writing our way forward in the face of collapsing ecosystems and more.

Meghan Sterling's latest collection of poetry is called You Are Here To Break Apart; downtown Waterville's Oliver & Friends Bookstore will have both sibo's debut novel, The Scent of Distant Family, and Sterling's book signed and available for purchase at the store.

About the Authors-

sid sibo: Growing up along the Kennebec in Sidney and graduating from Messalonskee High, sid sibo returns to her roots here. The dogs and horses she grew up around have remained influential all her life, and their influence in her debut novel (The Scent of Distant Family) is also indisputable, as the human characters wrestle with old secrets and new changes in their families and their Wyoming communities.

Learn More: https://www.sidsibo.com/

Meghan Sterling: Meghan Sterling (she/her/hers) is a queer/ bi writer and working mother living in Maine whose poetry has been published or is forthcoming in Tahoma Literary Review, the Los Angeles Review, the Colorado Review, Rhino Poetry, Hunger Mountain and many other journals. Her collections are These Few Seeds (Terrapin Books), Self-Portrait with Ghosts of the Diaspora (Harbor Editions), Comfort the Mourners (Everybody Press) and View from a Borrowed Field (Lily Poetry Review’s Paul Nemser Book Prize). You Are Here to Break Apart (Lily Poetry Review Press), came out in April 2025 and Sick Letters from the Lovebed (Harbor Editions) is forthcoming in 2026. She was named Poet Laureate of the city of Gardiner, Maine in August, 2025.

Learn More: https://meghansterling.com/

For more information and to RSVP: https://www.sidsibo.com/events/continuing-through-and-into-the-unknown-2-authors-discuss