Sheila Wellehan’s poetry focuses on fragility, resilience, and its absence in humans, animals, and the environment. She explores ecology, place, spirituality, caretaking and grief, and the restorative power of awe and wonder. Sheila’s work is featured in The Night Heron Barks, On the Seawall, ONE ART, Maine Public Radio’s Poems From Here, Psaltery & Lyre, Rust & Moth, Thimble Literary Magazine, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, Whale Road Review, and many other publications. She was Frost Meadow Review’s 2024 Featured Poet. Sheila served an assistant poetry editor for The Night Heron Barks and as an associate editor for Ran Off With the Star Bassoon. She’s looking for a home for her first full-length poetry manuscript, Fugitive Red, and putting the final touches on another full-length collection, Widow’s Weeds. Sheila grew up in Portland, Maine and is a lifelong Maine resident. She now lives just outside her hometown in Cape Elizabeth. She loves the natural world and visual art and took the photographs on this website.