Bio
Mary Alice Dixon grew up in Carolina red clay and Appalachian coal dust. She has been a popcorn waitress, an encyclopedia seller, and a Guardian ad Litem. She has also been a professor of architectural and landscape history in the United States and in China. She is a Pushcart nominee, Best Short Fiction nominee, and a Pinesong Poetry Award winner. In 2023 the NC Poetry Society named her a finalist for the 2023 Poet Laureate Award. She has also been a finalist for the Broad River Review Rash Award in Poetry and shortlisted for the Anthology Poetry Award. Her writing appears in Bark & Blossom, Catholic Poetry Room, Fourth River, Gyroscope Review, Kakalak, Main Street Rag, moonShine Review, Mythic Circle, North Dakota Quarterly, Pinesong, Stonecoast Review, and elsewhere. Mary Alice lives in Charlotte, NC where she volunteers with hospice, gardens with cow manure, and communes with the ghosts of her dead cats, Alice B. Toklas and Thomas Merton. She searches for prayer in people, in flowers, and in bird wings.
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