Mary Buchinger’s poems have appeared in Caesura, Cortland Review, Euphony, Existere, Ibbetson Street, New Madrid, Nimrod International Journal of Prose and Poetry, Upstairs at Duroc (France), RUNES: A Literary Review, Slice, The Massachusetts Review, Versal (The Netherlands), and other journals; she was invited to read her work at the Library of Congress in the Poetry at Noon Series, and was the recipient of the New England Poetry Club’s Daniel Varoujan Award, judged by Marge Piercy. Her collection, Roomful of Sparrows (2008), was a semi-finalist in the New Women’s Voices Series.
Mary is currently working on a manuscript about her experiences as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Ecuador. She holds a Ph.D. in applied linguistics and is associate professor of English and communication studies at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences in Boston.
Photograph by Anthony Majahad