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Mary Mackey was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, and is related through her father's family to Mark Twain. She graduated magna cum laude from Harvard and received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of Michigan. She has lived in the Colombian Amazon, the rain forests of Costa Rica, and north-eastern Brazil. In the course of writing her poetry and novels, she has made research expeditions to England, France, Italy, Spain, rural Rumania and Bulgaria, Russia, Ukraine, Soviet Georgia, Turkey, India, Nepal, Borneo, Australia, and California's Sierra Nevada mountains. From 1989 to 1992, she served as Chair of the West Coast branch of PEN. At present, she teaches Creative Writing at California State University where she is a Professor of English and Writer in Residence. Mackey has been praised by poets Marge Piercy, Jane Hirshfield, Dennis Nurkse, Wendell Berry, and Al Young for the fierce compassion of her poems and her stunning use of language and imagery. The New York Times has called her work "inventive and imaginative." Thomas Moore, best-selling author of Care of the Soul, has praised the "captivating" brilliance of her writing. Mackey's published works include five collections of poetry (Split Ends, Skin Deep, One Night Stand, The Dear Dance of Eros, and Breaking the Fever); a novella (Immersion), and eight novels (McCarthy’s List, Doubleday; The Last Warrior Queen, Putnam; A Grand Passion, Simon & Schuster; The Kindness of Strangers, Simon & Schuster; Season of Shadows, Bantam; The Year The Horses Came, Harper San Francisco; The Horses At The Gate, Harper San Francisco; and The Fires of Spring, Penguin.) Her nineth novel, The Notorious Mrs. Winston, will be published by Berkley Books in 2007.Mackey’s works have sold over a million and a half copies and have been translated into eleven foreign languages including Japanese, Hebrew, Greek, and Finnish. A screenwriter as well, she has sold feature scripts to Warner Brothers as well as to various independent film companies. John Korty directed the filming of her original, award-winning screenplay Silence.Mackey’s nonfiction and memoirs have appeared in numerous anthologies. She has reviewed books for The San Francisco Chronicle, The San Jose Mercury News, the American Book Review, and a variety of other publications; has lectured at Harvard and the Smithsonian; and has contributed to such diverse print and on-line publications as The Chiron Review, Redbook, and Salon. She is a fellow of the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. To sample Mary Mackey’s work and learn more about her, visit her webpage at www.marymackey.com.