Mary Koncel

Koncel was born and raised in Chicago and holds a BFA in Poetry from Columbia College Chicago and MFA in English from MFA Program for Poets & Writers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She lives in Worthington, Massachusetts. Koncel teaches writing at Smith College,^[2] and is a writing consultant to Boston's Department of Public Health in the AIDS Bureau.^[3] Koncel is known for prose poetry that is a combination of humor and visual images.^[4]

Koncel is also involved with the American Wild Horse Campaign,^[5] a group that finds homes for horses and burros on public lands in the United States.^[6]

• 1996 - Poetry Grant, Massachusetts Cultural Council^[4]
• Finalist, the Norma Farber First Book Award

Books

• Closer to the Day (1999) - Quale Press
• You Can Tell The Horse Anything^[7]
• The Last Blonde - Hedgerow Books (2017)^[8]

Anthologies

• The Party Train: A Collection of North American Prose Poetry
• No Boundaries: Prose Poems by 24 American Poets (edited by Ray Gonzalez)
• The Best of the Prose Poem: An International Journal
• Real Things: An Anthology of Popular Culture in American Poetry
• Ladies, Start Your Engines: Women Writing on Cars and on the Road

Journal publications

• The Massachusetts Review
• The Journal
• The Illinois Review
• key satch(el)
• Denver Quarterly
• The Prose Poem: An International Journal