Jonie McIntire

Jonie McIntire is the Poet Laureate of Lucas County in Ohio. Her first two chapbooks were Beyond the Sidewalk (NightBallet Press, 2017) and Not All Who Are Lost Wander (Finishing Line Press, 2016). Her third chapbook, Semidomesticated, was the winner of the Red Flag Poetry 2020 Chapbook contest, originally released in March 2021 and re-released through Sheila-Na-Gig Editions in July 2022. 

Her poetry has been published in Waterwheel Review, North of Oxford, Gasconade Review, Khroma, Malarkey Books, Dissonance Magazine, Women Speak - Women of Appalachia Anthology, and in many other journals and collections. My work has been nominated for Best of the Net and Pushcart Prize and has even been stamped into cement in Toledo, Ohio as part of the Arts Commission of Greater Toledo's Sidewalk Poetry series.

McIntire is the poetry editor for Of Rust and Glass and serves as Membership Chair for the Ohio Poetry Association. She hosts a monthly poetry reading series, Uncloistered Poetry, which has been going for over six years and currently runs in-person and on-line events each month.