Mary Mullen’s poems and non-fiction work have been published in The Stinging Fly, Crannóg, West47online, The Cùirt Annual, Landing Places: An Anthology of Irish Immigrant Poets, The Cork Literary Review, We Alaskans, The Irish Times, Peninsula Clarion, Anchorage Daily News and RTÉ Radio’s Sunday Miscellany.  She was awarded an MA in Writing from the National University of Ireland, Galway, in 2006.  A savant of memoir, she taught memoir writing at Galway Arts Centre, and now tutors writers privately.  Mary was born in Anchorage, and raised on her parent’s homestead in Soldotna, Alaska.  She moved to Ballinderreen, Co. Galway, Ireland in 1996, where she still lives with her daughter Lily, a sparkly Galway girl who was born with Down syndrome.