Mary Jane Nealon

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 Sept. 11, 2001, she studyed 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 9781884800313. http://books.google.com/?id=TCZbAAAAMAAJ&dq=Mary+Jane+Nealon. 
• Immaculate Fuel. Four Way Books. 2004-05. ISBN 9781884800535. http://books.google.com/?id=QlCxAAAAIAAJ&q=Mary+Jane+Nealon&dq=Mary+Jane+Nealon. 

Anthology

• Justin Daniel Belmont, ed (2005). The Art of Bicycling. Breakaway Books. ISBN 9781891369568. http://books.google.com/?id=XcFW1DR31mQC&pg=PA333&lpg=PA333&dq=Mary+Jane+Nealon. 
• By Judy Schaefer, ed (2006). The poetry of nursing. Kent State University Press. ISBN 9780873388481. http://books.google.com/?id=tKFlAAAAMAAJ&q=Mary+Jane+Nealon&dq=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 10884602. http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/1838865910-2210733/title~content=g792373840~db=all. 

References

1. ^ Laura Rockefeller (2001-09-26). "'Flying Nurse' Grounded by Earthbound Poetry". The Middlebury Campus. http://media.www.middleburycampus.com/media/storage/paper446/news/2001/09/26/Arts/flying.Nurse.Grounded.By.Earthbound.Poetry-101917.shtml. 
2. ^ http://www.hubcapart.com/ink/11inventory.php
3. ^ http://www.bgsu.edu/studentlife/organizations/midamericanreview/9-2.html
4. ^ http://www.theparisreview.org/viewissue.php/prmIID/149
5. ^ https://www.kenyonreview.org/issues/spring97/index.php?&printing=true
6. ^ http://www.poetsagainstthewar.org/poemsoftheweek_archive.asp
7. ^ KIM BRIGGEMAN. "Health center will offer anonymous, free HIV tests". Missoulian. http://www.missoulian.com/articles/2007/06/09/news/local/news04.txt. 
8. ^ http://www.hubcapart.com/ink/11personnel.php
9. ^ http://www.google.com/profiles/100119367002734959427
10. ^ http://www.fawc.org/ffnews/ff2004.shtml
11. ^ http://www.poetrysociety.org/winners-ninetyone_poems.html

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