Mary Jane Nealon

Mary Jane Nealon
Occupation	Poet nurse
Nationality	American
Education	Warren Wilson College (MFA)
Notable 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. ^[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

• 1995-1996, 1996-1997 fellowships from The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown ^[10]
• 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. ^[11]
• 2004-2005 Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship

Works

• "Her Father Must Be a Skywriter", poets.org

Books

• Rogue Apostle. Four Way Books. 2000. ISBN   978-1-884800-31-3.
• Immaculate Fuel. Four Way Books. May 2004. ISBN   978-1-884800-53-5.
• Beautiful Unbroken: One Nurse's Life. Grey Wolf Press. May 2004. ISBN   978-1-555975-90-6.

Anthology

• Justin Daniel Belmont, ed. (2005). The Art of Bicycling. Breakaway Books. ISBN   978-1-891369-56-8.
• By Judy Schaefer, ed. (2006). The poetry of nursing . Kent State University Press. ISBN   978-0-87338-848-1. Mary Jane Nealon.

Nursing

• Nealon, Mary Jane (1993). "Journal Keeping and Increased Self-Awareness: A Working Tool for Healers". Journal of Addictions Nursing. 5 (3): 90–94. doi:10.3109/10884609309149715. ISSN   1088-4602. S2CID   73309980.

References

1. Laura Rockefeller (September 26, 2001). "'Flying Nurse' Grounded by Earthbound Poetry". The Middlebury Campus.^{[ permanent dead link ]}
2. "Forklift, Ohio: A Journal of Poetry, Cooking, & Light Industrial Safety | Editors Matt Hart & Eric Appleby". Archived from the original on July 27, 2009. Retrieved May 31, 2009.
3. "Mid-American Review". Archived from the original on September 30, 2009. Retrieved May 31, 2009.
4. "The Paris Review - Winter 1998". Archived from the original on July 9, 2009. Retrieved May 31, 2009.
5. "The Kenyon Review". Archived from the original on August 27, 2008. Retrieved May 31, 2009.
6. "Poets Against War". Archived from the original on December 24, 2008. Retrieved May 31, 2009.
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". Archived from the original on July 19, 2008. Retrieved May 31, 2009.
9. "Sign in - Google Accounts". accounts.google.com.
10. "Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown: FAWC News : Former Fellows News". Archived from the original on October 6, 2008. Retrieved May 31, 2009.
11. "91st Annual Award Winners' Poems". Archived from the original on November 21, 2008. Retrieved May 31, 2009.