Mary Kovaleski Byrnes is the author of two collections of poetry: The Balance (forthcoming, Clemson University Press) and So Long the Sky (2018, Platypus Press). Her work has appeared in Image, Guernica, Meridian, Nimrod, Salamander, the Four Way Review, Best of the Net, and elsewhere. She teaches writing and literature at Emerson College, where she is senior reader for Ploughshares and co-founded the EmersonWRITES program, a free creative writing program for Boston Public Schools.
