Mary Peelen is the author of Quantum Heresies: Poems (Glass Lyre Press, 2019) winner of the 2018 Kithara Book Prize.
Her writing has appeared in The Massachusetts Review, Antioch Review, Gulf Coast, Alaska Quarterly Review, Bennington Review, New American Writing, Poetry Review (UK), and other journals. She received an MFA from San Francisco State University as well as an MDiv from the Graduate Theological Union. Born and raised in Michigan, she lives in San Francisco.
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View: Quantum Heresies: THE TRAILER (YouTube, 2 min.) A beautiful short film by writer/video artist Amanda Davidson. Music by Isaac Schankler.
Contact: ohmary [at] mail [dot] sfsu [dot] edu
Reviews of QUANTUM HERESIES
The Alchemist’s Kitchen reviewed by Susan Rich
RHINO reviewed by Donna Vorreyer
Psaltery & Lyre reviewed by Risa Denenberg
Individual Poems Online:
Confessions / The Minnesota Review
One / Harvard Divinity Bulletin
String Theory / The Poetry Review (UK)
Universal Law / Alaska Quarterly Review
Aphasia / Beloit Poetry Journal
Negative One / Guesthouse
Ontology / Pleiades
Ecstatic Syllabi: Four Poems / The Journal of Humanistic Mathematics
Hemicrania / Valparaiso Poetry Review
Supernova / Radar Poetry
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
Quantum Theory / Radar Poetry
Periodic Table of the Elements / Antioch Review
Aphasia / Poetry Daily
Barometer / Deaf Poets Society
Aurora Borealis / Deaf Poets Society
Migraine / Michigan Quarterly Review
Zero / Michigan Quarterly Review
Prognosis / Harvard Divinity Bulletin
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
INTERVIEW
10 Questions for Mary Peelen / The Massachusetts Review
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