Suellen Wedmore

Suellen Wedmore, Poet Laureate emerita for the small seaside town of Rockport, Massachusetts, has been widely published. Recently she was awarded first place in the Writer's Digest rhyming poem contest, her chapbook Deployed was selected as winner of the Grayson Press annual contest, and she was awarded a writing residency at Devil's Tower, Wyoming. Her chapbook On Marriage and Other Parallel Universes is forthcoming from Finishing Line Press. After 24 years working as a speech and language therapist, Suellen retired to pursue an MFA in Poetry at New England College, graduating in 2004.