Mary Crockett Hill is author of
· A Theory of Everything
(poetry, winner of the Autumn House Award,
selected by Naomi Shihab Nye, published 2009)
· If You Return Home with Food
(poetry, winner of the Bluestem Poetry Award)
· A Town by the Name of Salem
(history, with co-author John Long)
Mary has worked as a
· factory slug
· staggeringly bad waitress
· incompetent secretary
· person who irons name tags in industrial uniforms
· toilet-seat hand model
· fundraising spy
· freelance writer
· history museum director
· college English teacher
Mary’s poems have appeared in numerous magazines, as well as on Poetry Daily and in American Poetry: The Next Generation. She lives along the old Great Road in Virginia with her husband and children.