Mary Jane Nealon
American poet and nurse
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Mary Jane Nealon is an American poet, and registered nurse.
EducationWarren Wilson College (MFA)
Occupations
- Poet
- nurse
NotableawardsLucille Medwick Memorial Award (2001)
Mary Jane Nealon | |
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| Education | Warren Wilson College (MFA) |
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| Writing career | |
| Notable awards | Lucille Medwick Memorial Award (2001) |
Life
She 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
- 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
Books
- 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
- 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.
