Libby Maxey
Senior Editor & Poetry Editor (she/her)
Libby Maxey has been a member of the Literary Mama staff since 2012. She lives in rural Massachusetts with her husband and two teenage sons. With her academic career as a medievalist having died a stunningly swift death by childbirth, she now administers the Department of Classics at Amherst College, writes poetry, reads when able, and sings as much Handel as possible. Her work has appeared in The Mom Egg Review, The Maynard, Mezzo Cammin, and elsewhere. She is a winner of the Princemere Poetry Prize and the Helen Schaible International Sonnet Contest, and has twice won a Laureate’s Choice prize in the Maria W. Faust Sonnet Contest. She has published a poetry chapbook, Kairos (2019), which won the Finishing Line Press New Women’s Voices contest, and a full-length collection, Indwelling (Resource Publications 2024).