Biography
Lynne Schilling
Meet Lynne
Lynne Schilling is a retired pediatric nurse educator who held faculty and administrative positions at the graduate schools of nursing of the University of Florida, Yale University, and UMASS Worcester. She started writing poetry while in psychoanalysis in her mid-30s. At the end of psychoanalysis, she self- published a chapbook of poems written during that process. She wrote poetry sporadically and not for distribution until, at age 75, she began writing and reading poetry seriously.
In 2023, she published another chap book, Navigating Evening Seas: Approaching 80, that explores the childhood cancer experiences of her now-adult twin sons and experiences of getting old. She began publishing some of her poems in 2024. She has a full manuscript currently out for review and is working on two chapbooks, one on second chances and one a short memoir in poems. Currently, she spends much of her time writing, reading (poetry, novels, nonfiction), and attending on-line poetry events. She is addicted to chocolate, watching good films, and flowers. She struggles to watch her weight, her blood pressure, her other chronic conditions and, unsuccessfully, to make the needle move on the number of steps she takes per day. Dr. Schilling lives in Bethany, Connecticut.
