Mary Jane Nealon Explained

Mary Jane Nealon
Nationality:	American
Education:	Warren Wilson College (MFA)
Awards:	Lucille Medwick Memorial Award (2001)

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 the September 11 attacks, she studied the effects of trauma.^[1]

She was published in Forklift, Ohio,^[2] Mid American review,^[3] The Paris Review,^[4] The Kenyon Review,^[5] and Poets Against the War.^[6]

She currently works with people with HIV/AIDS at Partnership Health Center, Missoula, Montana,^{[7] [8] [9]} where she lives.

Awards

• 1995-1996, 1996-1997 fellowships from The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown^[10]
• 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.^[11]
• 2004-2005 Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship

Works

• "Her Father Must Be a Skywriter", poets.org

Books

• Book: Rogue Apostle. Four Way Books. 2000. 978-1-884800-31-3 .
• Book: Immaculate Fuel. Four Way Books. 978-1-884800-53-5. May 2004.
• Book: Beautiful Unbroken: One Nurse's Life. Grey Wolf Press. 978-1-555975-90-6. May 2004.

Anthology

• Book: The Art of Bicycling . Justin Daniel Belmont. Breakaway Books. 2005. 978-1-891369-56-8 .
• Book: The poetry of nursing . registration. Mary Jane Nealon.. By Judy Schaefer. Kent State University Press. 2006. 978-0-87338-848-1.

Nursing

• 10.3109/10884609309149715. Nealon. Mary Jane. Journal Keeping and Increased Self-Awareness: A Working Tool for Healers. 90–94. Journal of Addictions Nursing . 5. 3. 1993. 73309980. 1088-4602 .

Notes and References

1. News: 'Flying Nurse' Grounded by Earthbound Poetry. Laura Rockefeller. 2001-09-26. The Middlebury Campus.
2. Web site: Forklift, Ohio: A Journal of Poetry, Cooking, & Light Industrial Safety | Editors Matt Hart & Eric Appleby . 2009-05-31 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090727065409/http://www.hubcapart.com/ink/11inventory.php . 2009-07-27 .
3. Web site: Mid-American Review . 2009-05-31 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090930103814/http://www.bgsu.edu/studentlife/organizations/midamericanreview/9-2.html . 2009-09-30 .
4. Web site: The Paris Review - Winter 1998 . 2009-05-31 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090709031741/http://www.theparisreview.org/viewissue.php/prmIID/149 . 2009-07-09 .
5. Web site: The Kenyon Review . 2009-05-31 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20080827225450/http://www.kenyonreview.org/issues/spring97/index.php . 2008-08-27 .
6. Web site: Poets Against War . 2009-05-31 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20081224133329/http://www.poetsagainstthewar.org/poemsoftheweek_archive.asp . 2008-12-24 .
7. News: Health center will offer anonymous, free HIV tests. KIM BRIGGEMAN. Missoulian.
8. Web site: Forklift, Ohio: A Journal of Poetry, Cooking, & Light Industrial Safety | Editors Matt Hart & Eric Appleby . 2009-05-31 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20080719121535/http://www.hubcapart.com/ink/11personnel.php . 2008-07-19 .
9. Web site: Sign in - Google Accounts. accounts.google.com.
10. Web site: Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown: FAWC News : Former Fellows News . 2009-05-31 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20081006041408/http://www.fawc.org/ffnews/ff2004.shtml . 2008-10-06 .
11. Web site: 91st Annual Award Winners' Poems . 2009-05-31 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20081121060912/http://www.poetrysociety.org/winners-ninetyone_poems.html . 2008-11-21 .