Official Bio

Faith Lane (she/her/they/them) is a work in progress: a late blooming Druid who started talking with trees and stars at age three, reading at age four, writing poetry at age eight, and studying genealogy at age nine.

Born in Farmington, Maine, Faith grew up wild and rebellious in Wilton, Maine and Chester, New Hampshire. She graduated from Pinkerton Academy in Derry, New Hampshire and earned degrees from The University of Montana and San Jose State University.

For more than twenty years, Faith traveled in the United States and Europe as a military spouse, working in a wide variety of fields while raising and educating three beautiful children (now grown and with children of their own).

A poet, author, librarian, researcher, genealogist, and adventurer… Faith resides in Downeast Maine with her husband. Their herb gardens and meadows are home to birds, bees, butterflies, and other wild and rebellious creatures.

Faith Lane Books, LLC has published:

Poetry:

• an american druid speaks (coming in 2026)
• alaska: a photojournal (coming in Fall 2025)
• look up: a zine poem (2024)
• lighthouses of midcoast maine & tales of the folk who lived there (2024)
• toxic & tonic (2022)
• zen(ish) (2021)

History Matters Zines (2025):

• Political ISMs I & II
  • Characteristics of Democratic versus Non-Democratic political systems
  • Characteristics of Socialism, and its varying forms
• Good Sense 2025: Good Sense is Not Common
  • Reflections about Thomas Paine’s 1776 pamphlet Common Sense
• Information Literacy I & II
  • Silos: Where Does Information Come From
  • Critical Thinking: How to Think About What We Read, See, or Hear

Non-Fiction:

• Rural Librarianship: From Surviving to Thriving (2024)
• Emery Orson Lane & Rose Mabel Haskell: The Story of the Lane Farm (2024)
• Descendants of Emery Orson Lane & Rose Mabel Haskell of Fayette, Maine (2021)

Fiction:

• Veleda’s Vision
  • mixed genre work of speculative fiction (scheduled for publication in 2026)

Faith also has poems published in two anthologies by 12 Willows Press:

• North Woods at Night (2024)
• Echoes in the Fog (2025)

• 2019-2024: Researched and wrote Rural Librarianship: From Surviving to Thriving
• 2015-2019: Served as Library Director, Dorcas Library & Learning Center
• March 2019: Completed the Master of Library and Information Sciences [MLIS] online from San Jose State University

The Poet Genealogist

 GENEALOGY EXPERIENCE

1970-Present My interest in family history and genealogical research began when I was nine years old. I have been digging up old records and recording lost stories ever since.

CURRENT FAMILY HISTORY PROJECTS

James Lane & Eunice Chase of Kent’s Hill, Readfield, Maine

Grace Anthea Shelton White of Calloway County, Kentucky

Moses Alvin Clark of Perry, Maine

William F. Keys:  A Tough Nut to Crack

Women of Joshua Tree: A Genealogical Study

SURNAMES OF INTEREST:

Barth, Bean, Bearce, Bogardus, Bowen, Boyd, Briscoe, Brooks, Burrows, Clark, Denslow, Doherty, Eames, Folsom, Furches, Glavin, Halverston, Haskell, Heaward, Hensley, Johnston, Keys, Knight, Lane, LaRosee, Lidstone, Lovejoy, MacBean, MacDonald, MacLellan, MacMillan, Mansfield, Merrill, Morse, Pursell, Quimby, Roffe, Rogers, Shelton, Slaughter, Swett, Thomas, Tufts, VanSchaik, Walton, White, Wilkerson, Wilkins, Wing

Education

• 2019 Master Library & Information Sciences (MLIS), San Jose State University
• 2012 Genealogy I & II, Monterey Peninsula College, Monterey, California
• 1993 Graduate Courses (24 credit hours), Teaching Drama, University of Montana
• 1992 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Drama, University of Montana, Missoula, Montana
• 1992 UM Presidential Scholar, School of Fine Arts, Department of Drama/Dance

Jobs I Have Known & Loved (or Hated)

Housekeeper and nanny, plastic bottle line operator & inspector, retail sales, retail warehousing, retail filing clerk, civilian employee of US Army, theater box office manager, custodial worker, administrative assistant in a bank, book store associate manager, executive assistant at a bank, church custodian, office manager at a mortgage company, graphic designer, resume & curriculum vita consultant, library aide at two university libraries, costume shop worker, graduate student teaching Acting for Non-Majors, private tutor, high school speech & drama coach, actor, director, stage manager, wilderness & permaculture educator, nonprofit business consultant, technical director, events coordinator, assistant scoutmaster Boy Scouts of America, military family readiness group coordinator, business & sales trainer, private school technical director, long haul truck driver, corporate trainer, hotel front desk clerk, hotel housekeeping & maintenance manager, caretaker of a remote California ranch, genealogical researcher for private clients, genealogy teacher, library director, published author and entrepreneur.