Mary Jane Nealon is an American poet, and registered nurse.
Mary Jane Nealon | |
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| Nationality | American |
| Education | Warren Wilson College (MFA) |
| Notable awards | Lucille Medwick Memorial Award (2001) |
Life
editShe was raised in Jersey City, New Jersey. She received her MFA from Warren Wilson College in Asheville, North Carolina. From 1976, she worked as a nurse in New Jersey and New York City. After the September 11 attacks, she studied the effects of trauma.[1]
She was published in Forklift, Ohio,[2] Mid American review,[3] The Paris Review,[4] The Kenyon Review,[5] and Poets Against the War.[6]
She currently works with people with HIV/AIDS at Partnership Health Center, Missoula, Montana,[7][8][9] where she lives.
Awards
edit- 1995-1996, 1996-1997 fellowships from The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown[10]
- awards from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, the Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation
- Lucille Medwick Memorial Award of the Poetry Society of America in 2001.[11]
- 2004-2005 Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship
Works
editBooks
edit- Rogue Apostle. Four Way Books. 2000. ISBN 978-1-884800-31-3.
- Immaculate Fuel. Four Way Books. May 2004. ISBN 978-1-884800-53-5.
- Beautiful Unbroken: One Nurse's Life. Grey Wolf Press. May 2004. ISBN 978-1-555975-90-6.
Anthology
edit- Justin Daniel Belmont, ed. (2005). The Art of Bicycling. Breakaway Books. ISBN 978-1-891369-56-8.
- By Judy Schaefer, ed. (2006). The poetry of nursing. Kent State University Press. ISBN 978-0-87338-848-1.
Mary Jane Nealon.
Nursing
editReferences
edit- ^ Laura Rockefeller (September 26, 2001). "'Flying Nurse' Grounded by Earthbound Poetry". The Middlebury Campus.[permanent dead link]
- ^ "Forklift, Ohio: A Journal of Poetry, Cooking, & Light Industrial Safety | Editors Matt Hart & Eric Appleby". Archived from the original on July 27, 2009. Retrieved May 31, 2009.
- ^ "Mid-American Review". Archived from the original on September 30, 2009. Retrieved May 31, 2009.
- ^ "The Paris Review - Winter 1998". Archived from the original on July 9, 2009. Retrieved May 31, 2009.
- ^ "The Kenyon Review". Archived from the original on August 27, 2008. Retrieved May 31, 2009.
- ^ "Poets Against War". Archived from the original on December 24, 2008. Retrieved May 31, 2009.
- ^ KIM BRIGGEMAN. "Health center will offer anonymous, free HIV tests". Missoulian.
- ^ "Forklift, Ohio: A Journal of Poetry, Cooking, & Light Industrial Safety | Editors Matt Hart & Eric Appleby". Archived from the original on July 19, 2008. Retrieved May 31, 2009.
- ^ "Sign in - Google Accounts". accounts.google.com.
- ^ "Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown: FAWC News : Former Fellows News". Archived from the original on October 6, 2008. Retrieved May 31, 2009.
- ^ "91st Annual Award Winners' Poems". Archived from the original on November 21, 2008. Retrieved May 31, 2009.
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