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by Mary Mackey (Author)
Winner, Eric Hoffer Award, Best Book Published by a Small Press
Author Biography
Mary Mackey is the author of eight poetry collections, including Sugar Zone, winner of a PEN Award, and The Jaguars That Prowl Our Dreams, winner of a the 2019 Eric Hoffer Award for Best Book Published by a Small Press. Her poetry has been praised by Wendell Berry, Jane Hirshfield, D. Nurkse, Al Young, Rafael Jesú s Gonzá lez, and Maxine Hong Kingston for its beauty, precision, originality, and extraordinary range. She is also the author of 14 novels including The New York Times bestseller A Grand Passion. In 2022 her screenplay Time Piece won first prize in the City of Angels Women's Film Festival. Her most recent book Creativity: Where Poems Begin (Marsh Hawk Press) was a Northern California Book Reviewers Award finalist for Best Book of Creative Nonfiction Published in Northern California in 2023.