Lynne Schmidt’s manuscript, The Unaccounted for Circles of Hell, was a finalist for the 2020 New Women’s Voices Award from Finishing Line Press, while her manuscript, Dead Dog Poems, a collection about the grief that comes with a terminal cancer diagnosis of a beloved emotional support animal, won the prize.
About Lynne
Lynne Schmidt is the granddaughter of a Holocaust survivor, and a mental health professional with a focus in trauma and healing. She is the author of the chapbooks, Gravity (Nightingale and Sparrow Press) which was listed as one of the 17 Best Breakup Books to Read in 2020, and On Becoming a Role Model (Thirty West), which was featured on The Wardrobe’s Best Dressed for PTSD Awareness Week. Her work has received the Maine Nonfiction Award, Editor’s Choice Award, and was a 2018 and 2019 PNWA finalist for memoir and poetry respectively. Lynne was a five time 2019 and 2020 Best of the Net Nominee, an honorable mention for the Charles Bukowski, and Doug Draime Poetry Awards. In 2012 she started the project, AbortionChat, which aims to lessen the stigma around abortion. When given the choice, Lynne prefers the company of her three dogs and one cat to humans.