Author : Mary Beth O’Connor

Mary Beth O’Connor is a writer and teacher in Upstate New York. Her work has appeared in Literary Bohemian, River Lit, Inkwell, The Healing Muse, Painted Bride Quarterly, Red Fez, Printer’s Devil Review, Fiction Daily, Café Irreal, Prick of the Spindle, The Comstock Review, Compass Rose, The 
Massachusetts Review and others. Smackdown! Poems about the Professor Business won the 2006 
Teachers’ Voice Chapbook Competition and was reissued in a new edition in 2010.