Rising from the past, my shadow
Comes silently to me.
— Anna Akhmatova
Sally Mills is a poet and attorney from Downeast Maine. She studied the Russian Silver Age poets and holds an MPhil on the work of Anna Akhmatova. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in publications including The New Verse News, The Main Street Rag, Sheila-Na-Gig, Rat’s Ass Review, The Esthetic Apostle, and Mobius: The Journal of Social Change. When not writing poetry or practicing law, Sally performs with The Damn, Girls! — Hancock County’s premier country-western girl band.
