Mary Koncel

Mary Koncel is an American poet who has published three books of poetry. She is known for writing prose poetry.

Biography

Koncel was born and raised in Chicago and holds a BFA in Poetry from Columbia College Chicago and MFA in English from MFA Program for Poets & Writers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She lives in Worthington, Massachusetts. Koncel teaches writing at Smith College, and is a writing consultant to Boston's Department of Public Health in the AIDS Bureau. Koncel is known for prose poetry that is a combination of humor and visual images.
Koncel is also involved with the American Wild Horse Campaign, a group that finds homes for horses and burros on public lands in the United States.

Grants and awards

1996 - Poetry Grant, Massachusetts Cultural Council
Finalist, the Norma Farber First Book Award

Books

Closer to the Day - Quale PressYou Can Tell The Horse AnythingThe Last Blonde - Hedgerow Books

Anthologies

The Party Train: A Collection of North American Prose PoetryNo Boundaries: Prose Poems by 24 American Poets The Best of the Prose Poem: An International JournalReal Things: An Anthology of Popular Culture in American Poetry

''Ladies, Start Your Engines: Women Writing on Cars and on the Road''

Journal publications

The Massachusetts ReviewThe JournalThe Illinois Reviewkey satchDenver Quarterly

''The Prose Poem: An International Journal''