Mary Kovaleski Byrnes is the author of So Long the Sky (Platypus Press, May 2018). She teaches writing and literature at Emerson College, and is the co-founder of the emersonWRITES program, a free creative writing program for Boston Public School students. Her work has appeared in Guernica, Salamander, the Four Way Review, the Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review, the Boston Globe, Poet Lore, Cimmaron Review, the Best of Kore Press, Best of the Net, PANK, and elsewhere. She served as Poetry Editor for Redivider and has been a poetry reader for Ploughshares since 2009.
Mary holds degrees from Emerson College and Mary Washington University and her writing has been supported by the Colrain Manuscript Conference and The Squaw Valley Community of Writers. Originally from Lititz, PA, Mary previously worked for an international non-profit that sent her frequently to Eastern Europe. She worked in New Zealand as a housekeeper and waitress, and translated contemporary Andalucían poetry in Sevilla and Cadiz, Spain. She currently lives in Newburyport, MA with her husband and two young children, Xavier and Natalie.
email - mary@marykovaleskibyrnes.com
twitter - https://twitter.com/MaryByrnski
Mary holds degrees from Emerson College and Mary Washington University and her writing has been supported by the Colrain Manuscript Conference and The Squaw Valley Community of Writers. Originally from Lititz, PA, Mary previously worked for an international non-profit that sent her frequently to Eastern Europe. She worked in New Zealand as a housekeeper and waitress, and translated contemporary Andalucían poetry in Sevilla and Cadiz, Spain. She currently lives in Newburyport, MA with her husband and two young children, Xavier and Natalie.
email - mary@marykovaleskibyrnes.com
twitter - https://twitter.com/MaryByrnski