Mary Jane Nealon

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Mary Jane Nealon
Occupation
  • Poet
  • nurse
NationalityAmerican
Education Warren Wilson College (MFA)
Notable awards Lucille Medwick Memorial Award (2001)

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

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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. [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

Works

Books

Anthology

Nursing

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