Mary Peelen is a poet, author of Quantum Heresies, winner of the Kithara Book Prize (Glass Lyre Press, 2019).
Mary Peelen‘s writing has appeared in The Massachusetts Review, Harvard Divinity Bulletin, Beloit Poetry Journal, Antioch Review, Gulf Coast, Alaska Quarterly Review, Bennington Review, New American Writing, Poetry Review (UK), and other journals. Her poetry has been nominated for Best of the Net and Pushcart Prizes.
She has a BA in mathematics, an MDiv, and an MFA in creative writing from San Francisco State University. Born and raised in Michigan, she lives in San Francisco and Paris.
Contact: MaryPeelen [at] gmail [dot] com
Quantum Heresies: Poems by Mary Peelen
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New Short Fiction:
The Talented Higgs Boson / New Critique – Nominated for Best of the Net 2020
Poems:
Prognosis / Harvard Divinity Bulletin
Confessions / The Minnesota Review
String Theory / The Poetry Review (UK)
Universal Law / Alaska Quarterly Review
Aphasia / Beloit Poetry Journal
Negative One / Guesthouse
One / Harvard Divinity Bulletin
Ontology / Pleiades
Ecstatic Syllabi: Four Poems / The Journal of Humanistic Mathematics
Hemicrania / Valparaiso Poetry Review
Interim / Baltimore Review
Thermodynamics / Radar Poetry
Variable / The Massachusetts Review
Birds of Japan / Tinderbox Poetry Journal
Chaos Theory / Radar Poetry
Mandelbrot Set / Radar Poetry
Infinite Gravity / Radar Poetry
Periodic Table of the Elements / Antioch Review
Barometer / Deaf Poets Society
Aurora Borealis / Deaf Poets Society
Migraine / Michigan Quarterly Review
Zero / Michigan Quarterly Review
Awake / The Poetry Review (UK)
Fault / New American Writing
Remembrance / New American Writing
Properties of Light / Barrow Street Journal
Proof / Psaltery & Lyre
Sunday Morning / Psaltery & Lyre
Reviews of QUANTUM HERESIES
The Adroit Journal Interview by Gizem Karaali
Poetry Northwest Reviewed by Jenna Le
The Adroit Journal Reviewed by Deborah Bacharach
Quantum Heresies Reviewed by Brian Clegg
The Journal of the Chinese Academy of Sciences Book Review
The Cortland Review Reviewed by Kim Jacobs-Beck
The Rupture (previously The Collagist) Reviewed by Anne Graue
The Literary Review Reviewed by Heather Lang
Angelus Reviewed by Nick Ripatrazone
The Alchemist’s Kitchen Reviewed by Susan Rich
RHINO Reviewed by Donna Vorreyer
Psaltery & Lyre Reviewed by Risa Denenberg
INTERVIEWS
Poetry of Logical Ideas in The Adroit Journal / Interview by Gizem Karaali
10 Questions for Mary Peelen / The Massachusetts Review
Interview with Mary Peelen & Susan Rich / Tinderbox Poetry Journal
TPQ5: Mary Peelen / Interview by The Poetry Question
FICTION
Godsend / Gulf Coast
NONFICTION and CROSS GENRE
Evidence / Redivider Issue 15.2
Stagecraft / The Shell Game (Anthology) edited by Kim Adrian
Draw / Bennington Review
Sarong / Women in Clothes edited by Sheila Heti et al
BOOK REVIEWS
Tunsiya/Amrikiya by Leila Chatti / Hyacinth Girl Press
Aileron by Geraldine Connolly / Whale Road Review
Camera by Maxine Chernoff / Interim: A Journal of Poetry and Poetics
The TRAILER
Quantum Heresies: The TRAILER (YouTube, 2 min.) A beautiful short film by writer/video artist Amanda Davidson. Music by Isaac Schankler.
Cover design: JeeneeLeeDesign
Cover art: Lauren Emmons
Author photo: Jean-Philippe Voiron