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Mary Jane Nealon

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Mary Jane Nealon is an American poet, and registered nurse.

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 Sept. 11, 2001, 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. 2004-05. ISBN 978-1-884800-53-5. {{cite book}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  • Beautiful Unbroken: One Nurse's Life. Grey Wolf Press. May 2004. ISBN 978-1-555975-90-6.

Anthology

Nursing

References