Annaliese Jakimides

Every day, Annaliese Jakimides shows up. She shows up to write about people and place, about the narrative of our lives—in prose and poetry, the world of the real and the world of the imaginary.

Her prose and poetry have been published in many journals and magazines, including Beloit Poetry Journal, Utne Reader, Decor Maine, and GQ, as well as in anthologies such as Breaking Bread: Essays from New England on Food, Hunger, and Family; This I Believe II: More Personal Philosophies of Remarkable Men and Women; Rivers of Ink: Literary Reflections on the Penobscot; The Essential Hip Mama, About Face, and A Dangerous New World. Cited in national competitions, most recently as a finalist for the Stephen Dunn Poetry Prize, and nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net, her work has also been broadcast on NPR and MPBN. She has been a finalist twice in both poetry and nonfiction for the Maine Literary Awards. Along with Troy Casa, she is the cofounder of the Belfast Poetry Festival in Belfast, Maine.