Mary Fister
(She/her) MentorMary Fister teaches writing and literature at the University of Hartford where she has been part of the faculty for thirty-six years. Her poems have appeared in journals such as The Massachusetts Review, Ploughshares, Tar River Poetry, The MacGuffin, and Volt among others. Her chapbook, Provenance of the Lost was published by Finishing Line Press. Her first full-length collection of poems, titled Quick to Bolt, came out from Green Writers Press in 2023. She is sending out a third poetry manuscript, and a Young Adult novel in hopes they find homes, too.
Artist‘s Statement
Carol Muske-Dukes, my first professor of poetry-writing perhaps says it best in the blurb about my book: “This poet is a natural: a gardener, a farmer, an ocean wanderer, a lover of horses, birds and flowers– yet her most natural gift resides in these poems, as sculptor of words. ‘An artist’s hand is raised,’ she writes– then witnesses ‘the wild skirmishes of words’ These searching, startling poems prove ‘what the chisel can be to the dream, ‘and here is both chisel and dream — then the lasting sculpture made whole.”