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 Palette Poetry, Image, Guernica, Salamander, the Four Way Review, the Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review, the Boston Globe, the Best of Kore Press, Best of the Net, and elsewhere. Originally from Pennsylvania, Mary currently lives in on the north shore of Boston, MA with her husband and two children.

email - mary@marykovaleskibyrnes.com