About

Mary Mullen's debut poetry collection, Zephyr, was published by Salmon Poetry, Co. Clare, Ireland, in 2010. Her poems have appeared in The Stinging Fly, Crannóg, the Cuirt Annual, Ofi Press, the Poetry Bus, Cirque, and Alaska Women Speak, as well as in anthologies including Dogs Singing: A Tribute, Salmon Poetry, Jessie Lendennie, Ed.; For Rhino in a Shrinking World, Poets Printery, South Africa, Harry Owen, Ed.;  The Artistic Atlas of Galway, Liam Duffy, Ed.; Landing Places: Immigrant Poets in Ireland, Dedalus Press, Eva Bourke and Borbàla Faragó, Ed; and in The Book of Live:Poems to Tide You Over, Dedalus Press, Grace Wells, Ed.

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Mary won first place in the Fermoy International Poetry Competition, 2012, placed on a shortlist of 5 for the Listowel Writers' Week Single Poem Competition, 2013, and was shortlisted for the Bailieborough Poetry Competition, 20015, and longlisted for the Palette Poetry Love and Eros Prize, 2022.

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She was award an MA in Writing from National University of Ireland, Galway, in 2006 and selected for the Poetry Ireland Introductions series in 2007. Her nonfiction has been published in the Peninsula Clarion, Anchorage Daily News, Alaska Dispatch, The Irish Times, and Cork Literary Review, and on  RTÉ Radio "Sunday Miscellany."

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Mary Mullen was born in Anchorage and raised on her parents' homestead in Soldotna, Alaska. She lived in Ballinderreen, Co. Galway, Ireland, for two decades and now is living in Forest Grove, Oregon, with her adult daughter, Lily. They are both advocates for people with disabilities.