A graduate of Princeton University (BA in English), Columbia University Teachers College (MA in English Education), and Vermont College of Fine Arts (MFA in Poetry), Mary Warren Foulk (she/her) has been published in The Hollins Critic, Palette Poetry, Fjords Review, The Gay & Lesbian Review, and North American Review, among other publications. Her work also has appeared in Who’s Your Mama? The Unsung Voices of Women and Mothers (Soft Skull Press), (M)othering Anthology (Inanna Publications), and My Loves: A Digital Anthology of Queer Love Poems (Ghost City Press). She has two award-winning chapbooks, If I Could Write You a Happier Ending (dancing girl press) and Erasures of My Coming Out (Letter) (The Poetry Box). A third, Dear Beautiful Gay, was published in June 2025, a companion to her Erasures (The Poetry Box). Her newest collection, The Show Must Go On (Fernwood Press), was
a finalist for the 2021 Gival Press Poetry Award, and the Inlandia Institute’s 2022 Hillary Gravendyk Prize, and a semi-finalist for the Word Works’ 2022 Washington Prize. Currently, she works at the Emily Dickinson Museum, where she has learned to “Tell all the truth but tell it slant.”