Mary earned an MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults from Vermont College of Fine Arts and writes in multiple genres: poetry for children and adults, and picture books. Mary’s poetry and essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Cape Cod Times, The Cambridge Chronicle, Provincetown Magazine, WBUR’s Cognoscenti, and at SheWired.
Book News!
Like a Mother Bear, Mary’s picture book biography of PFLAG founder Jeanne Manford, will be illustrated by J Yang and published by Atheneum/Simon & Schuster! Coming in 2027.
Poetry for Children:
Mary’s poetry for children has been published in several anthologies and online poetry journals, including Things We Do and What is a Hope? from Pomelo Books; Tyger Tyger journal; and Dirigible Balloon. Mary’s poem “Firefighter Face” appears in Amazing Faces, an anthology edited by Lee Bennett Hopkins (Lee and Low, 2010).
Poetry for Adults:
- “Ars Poetica, Bronx,” in The New York Times, 25 July 2021.
- “Red Blouse” in Rise Up Review, summer 2023.
- “Silent” in the journal Passager, September 2023.
- “Still” in Radical Teacher, winter 2023.
- “Call the Doctor” in Medmic journal, September 2023.
- “Studying Rachel Maddow in Provincetown,” in the anthology Hashtag Queer Vol. 2, 2018.
- “Not in Kansas: Tribute to Rainbow Flag Creator Gilbert Baker,” Provincetown Magazine, June 2018.
- “We Know How to Do This,” in anthology If You Can Hear This: Poems in Protest of an American Inauguration. Sibling Rivalry Press, January 2017.
Podcast Interview:
I was delighted to be a guest on the Bronx Heroes podcast– episode 3.
