Mary Jane Nealon

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Name Mary Nealon Role Poet		Education Warren Wilson College

Books Immaculate fuel, Rogue apostle, Beautiful Unbroken: One Nurs

Mary Jane Nealon is an American poet, and registered nurse.

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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.

She was published in Forklift, Ohio, Mid American review, The Paris Review, The Kenyon Review, and Poets Against the War.

She currently works with people with HIV/AIDS at Partnership Health Center, Missoula, Montana, where she lives.

Awards

1995-1996, 1996-1997 fellowships from The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown

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.

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. 2004-05. 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.

Nursing

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

References

Mary Jane Nealon Wikipedia

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