Mary Jane Nealon
- Nationality
- United States
- Occupation
- poet · writer · nurse
- Education
- Warren Wilson College
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• Name — Mary Jane Nealon • Occupation — * Poet • nurse • Education — Warren Wilson College (MFA) • Awards — Lucille Medwick Memorial Award (2001) 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 the September 11 attacks, she studied the effects of trauma. She was published in Forklift, Ohio, Mid American review, The Paris Review, The Kenyon Review, and Poets Against the War. She currently works with people with HIV/AIDS at Partnership Health Center, Missoula, Montana, where she lives.
Works
• "Her Father Must Be a Skywriter", poets.org
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Awards
• 1995-1996, 1996-1997 fellowships from The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown • 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. • 2004-2005 Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship
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- 1.Laura Rockefeller. 'Flying Nurse' Grounded by Earthbound Poetry. The Middlebury Campus dead link. January 2018.
- 2.Forklift, Ohio: A Journal of Poetry, Cooking, & Light Industrial Safety | Editors Matt Hart & Eric Appleby.
- 3.Mid-American Review.
- 4.The Paris Review - Winter 1998.
- 5.The Kenyon Review.
- 6.Poets Against War.
- 7.KIM BRIGGEMAN. Health center will offer anonymous, free HIV tests. Missoulian.
- 8.Forklift, Ohio: A Journal of Poetry, Cooking, & Light Industrial Safety | Editors Matt Hart & Eric Appleby.
- 9.Sign in - Google Accounts. accounts.google.com.
- 10.Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown: FAWC News : Former Fellows News.
- 11.91st Annual Award Winners' Poems.
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