Mary Elizabeth ParkerMARY ELIZABETH PARKER's poetry collections include THE SEX GIRL, Urthona Press, and 4 chapbooks: MISS HAVISHAM IN WINTER, FutureCycle Press; CAVE-GIRL, Finishing Line Press; BREATHING IN A FOREIGN COUNTRY, Paradise Press; and THAT STUMBLING RITUAL, Craddi Publications, University of North Carolina, Greensboro. Her poems have appeared in NOTRE DAME REVIEW, GETTYSBURG REVIEW, NEW LETTERS, ARTS & LETTERS, CONFRONTATION, MARGIE, PASSAGES NORTH, and GREENSBORO REVIEW (nominated for a Pushcart Prize). She has been featured poet on POETRY DAILY and in MARGIN: EXPLORING MODERN MAGICAL REALISM, and has twice been a fellow at Vermont Studio Center. She also writes prose: Her essay "Combat Boots" was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Her short story "Papier-Mache" was published as part of Papier-Mache Press's anthology Grow Old Along with Me; The Best Is Yet to Be, whose audio version was one of only 5 books-on-tape nominated for a national Grammy Award that year (Hillary Clinton's book-on-tape It Takes A Village won). She is creator and chair of the Dana Awards in the Novel, Short Fiction, and Poetry. Read More Read Less