News & Events

Publication & event news

I'm teaching two summer classes at White Bear Center for the Arts in White Bear, MN. Please join me!

My poem, "After the storm" will appear in Great Lakes Review in 2026.

My review of Cat to was published by Rain Taxi Review in the Spring print issue.

Past events

Arkana Launch Party, 6 p.m. CT April 29, 2026 via Zoom. I'll be reading my essay, To the Strangers on Flight SY770, which won the Editor's Choice Award.

St. Patty's Day reading and music at the University Club in St. Paul on March 17, 2026, 7:30 p.m. With Barry Foy, James Silas Rogers, Thomas Dillon Redshaw and Tim Nolan.

Read my essay, "Holding," from the Saint Paul Almanac (2025) at the American School of Storytelling, Sunday Dec. 21, 2025.

Honored to have earned three 2025 Certificates of Excellence from the Cat Writers' Association for my 2024 rescue-related writing.

Sunday May 5, 2024 at Ginkgo Coffeehouse reading with Michael Kleber-Diggs, Margaret Hasse and others in support of PeaceMaker Minnesota.

2024 Hartz Newcomer Cat Communications Award winner from the Cat Writers' Association.

Wednesday, June 28, 2023 6 p.m. at Next Chapter Books, St. Paul. Mary read with Sandra Eliason, from the anthology, True Stories About Love, Volume 2.

June 8, 2022, Moth Grand Slam, Pantages Theater

May 5, 2021, 8 p.m. ET, Wayfinding Poetry Reading, with Guest Park Ranger Ashley Waymouth. View online.