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.

Mary Jane Nealon

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

Mary Jane Nealon

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

Mary Jane Nealon

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

Anthology

Nursing

References

Warren Wilson College alumni

Writers from Jersey City, New Jersey

Living people

American nurses

American women nurses

American women poets

Year of birth missing (living people)