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 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.

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