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Mary Mackey
Mary Mackey is an American novelist, poet, and academic. She is the author of seven collections of poetry and thirteen novels, including the ''New York Times'' best-seller ''A Grand Passion'' and ''The Year The Horses Came'', ''The Horses At The Gate'', and ''The Fires of Spring'', three sweeping historical novels that take as their subject the earth-centered, Goddess-worshiping cultures of Neolithic Europe. In 2012, her sixth collection of poetry, ''Sugar Zone'', won a PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award. Her first novel, ''Immersion'' (Shameless Hussy Press, 1972), was the first novel published by a Second Wave feminist press. Long concerned with environmental issues, Mackey frequently writes about the rainforests of Costa Rica and the Brazilian Amazon. In the early 1970s, as Professor of English and Writer-In-Residence at California State University, Sacramento, she was instrumental in the founding of the CSUS Women’s Studies Program and the CSUS English Department Graduate Creative Writing Program. From 1989-1992, she served as President of the West Coast Branch of PEN American Center involving herself in PEN’s international defense of persecuted writers.
==Biography==
Mackey was born in Indianapolis, Indiana. Her father was a physician. Her mother worked as a chemist in the Mead Johnson laboratories during World War II.〔''Contemporary Authors Autobiography Series'', Vol. 27, ed. Shelly Andrews. Detroit/New York/Toronto/London: Gale Research (1997), pp 199-220.〕 While attending Harvard College, Mackey, an English major, came under the influence of the father of modern ethnobotany, Richard Evans Schultes to whom she attributes a lifelong interest in botany and ecology, themes which often appear in her novels and poetry.〔Interview with Mary Mackey, The WELL, Inkwell.vue https://user.well.com/engaged.cgi?a=r&c=inkwell.vue&t=287; See also Mackey’s novels ''Immersion'', ''The Last Warrior Queen'', and ''The Widow’s War''; and her poetry collections ''Breaking The Fever'' and ''Sugar Zone''.〕 During her twenties, she lived in field stations in the then-remote jungles of Costa Rica.〔''Contemporary Authors Autobiography Series, Vol 27''〕 After receiving her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of Michigan, she moved to California to become Professor of English and Writer-in-Residence at California State University, Sacramento (CSUS). She is married to Angus Wright,〔''Contemporary Authors Autobiography Series, Vol 27''〕 CSUS Emeritus Professor of Environmental Studies, with whom she frequently travels to Brazil.〔Omnidawn Publishing Blog Posted 11/15/2009 http://omnidawn.wordpress.com/2009/11/15/poetry-feature-mary-mackey/〕
Mackey was one of the founders of the CSUS Women’s Studies Program.〔''Feminists Who Changed America'', ed. Barbara J. Love. Chicago, IL: University of Illinois Press (2006), p. 291.〕 She also founded the CSUS English Department Graduate Creative Writing Program along with poet Dennis Schmitz and novelist Richard Bankowsky. In 1978 Mackey founded the Feminist Writers Guild with poets Adrienne Rich and Susan Griffin and novelist Valerie Miner.〔''Feminists Who Changed America''〕 From 1989-1992, Mackey served as President of the West Coast Branch of PEN American Center involving herself in PEN’s international defense of persecuted writers.〔''Feminists Who Changed America''〕 Mackey retired from California State University in 2008. As of 2011, she continues to write novels and poetry.〔Omnidawn Publishing Blog, Posted 11/15/2009 http://omnidawn.wordpress.com/2009/11/15/poetry-feature-mary-mackey/ Andy Ross Interviews Mary Mackey, Red Room. http://www.redroom.com/blog/andyross/mary-mackey-writing-historical-fiction〕
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