Melinda Josiah Geaumont earned a BA in Sociology from the University of Southern Maine and a Masters in Social Work from the University of New England. She works as a licensed clinical social worker and psychotherapist, but spends much of her spare time planning adventures with her best friends, practicing yoga, and writing for women. Her poetry has been published locally, as well as in the Northern New England Review and the national award winning journal Welcome Home. Melinda is the mother of two grown children and lives with her husband in Springvale, Maine.