Valy Steverlynck is an Argentine-American mother, artist, emerging poet, and oyster farmer based in Maine. Steverlynck’s poems have been published or are forthcoming in Poets Reading the News, Literary Mama, Panoplyzine, and Cider Press Review. Her visual work has been shown at multiple galleries and art museums, including the Center for Maine Contemporary Art, DeCordova Museum, Fuller Museum of Art, and Centro Recoleta, Argentina. When not tending to her oysters, Steverlynck likes to take long hikes in the woods, swim in salt water, and read. She is a graduate of Brown University and University of Wisconsin-Madison.