

The basics
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American writer
Gender:
Female
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Education:
Columbia College Chicago
University of Massachusetts Amherst
The details
Biography
Introduction
Mary Koncel is an American poet who has published two books of poetry.
She was born and raised in Chicago and holds a BFA in Poetry from Columbia College Chicago and MFA in English from MFA Program for Poets & Writers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.She now lives in Worthington, Massachusetts with her husband. Koncel co-designed and teaches in the Writing Program of the Smith College School for Social Work.She is also a writing consultant to the Department of Public Health - AIDS Bureau in Boston, Massachusetts.
Grants and awards
- 1996 - Poetry Grant, Massachusetts Cultural Council
She was also a finalist for the Norma Farber First Book Award.
Books
- Closer to the Day (1999) - Quale Press
- You Can Tell The Horse Anything - Tupelo Press
Other publications - anthologies
- The Party Train: A Collection of North American Prose Poetry
- No Boundaries: Prose Poems by 24 American Poets (edited by Ray Gonzalez)
- The Best of the Prose Poem: An International Journal
- Real Things: An Anthology of Popular Culture in American Poetry
- Ladies, Start Your Engines: Women Writing on Cars and on the Road
Journal publications
- The Massachusetts Review
- The Journal
- The Illinois Review
- key satch(el)
- Denver Quarterly
- The Prose Poem: An International Journal