Mary Warren Foulk

Mary Warren Foulk (she/her) has been published in Palette Poetry, Fjords Review, The Hollins Critic, Pine Hills Review, Sheila-Na-Gig, and The Midwest Quarterly, among other publications. Her work also has appeared in Who’s Your Mama? The Unsung Voices of Women and Mothers (Soft Skull Press), (M)othering Anthology (Inanna Publications), and My Loves: A Digital Anthology of Queer Love Poems (Ghost City Press). Her chapbook, If I Could Write You a Happier Ending, was selected by dancing girl press (2021) for their annual series featuring women poets. Her manuscript Erasures of My Coming Out (Letter) won first place in The Poetry Box’s 2021 chapbook contest. Her manuscript The Show Must Go On was a finalist for the 2021 Gival Press Poetry Award, and the Inlandia Institute’s 2022 Hillary Gravendyk Prize, and a semi-finalist for the Word Works' 2022 Washington Prize. It is forthcoming from Fernwood Press, summer 2024. She recently won the "Teach! Write! Play!" fellowship to the Martha's Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing and her poem "The Inventory of Fumbling" received first place honors. Her essays and reviews have appeared in The Gay & Lesbian Review, North American Review, The Poetry Cafe, and The Penmen Review.