Mary Ann Larkin is the author of That Deep and Steady Hum, a collection of poems published in 2010 (The Broadkill River Press). She has also authored six chapbooks of poetry: The Coil of the Skin, (Washington Writers' Publishing House); White Clapboard, with art by A. Brockie Stevenson, (Carol Allen); The DNA of the Heart, (privately printed); A Shimmering That Goes with Us, (Finishing Line Press); gods & flesh,(Plan B Press); and On Gannon Street, (Broadkill River Press.) Her poetry has won awards and appeared in numerous magazines such as The Greensboro Review, Poet Lore, Poetry Ireland Review, New Letters, and Poetry Greece, and in a score of local and national anthologies, including America in Poetry and Ireland in Poetry, the art and poetry series published by Harry N. Abrams. In Cleveland, Ohio, she co-founded the Big Mama Poetry Troupe, five feminist poets who gave more than fifty performances from Chicago to New York. She has been awarded writer's residencies at both the Jentel Foundation in Wyoming and Yaddo in upstate New York. Her poems have appeared twice on Garrison Keillor's Writer's Almanac. Mary Ann has earned her living as a writer for organizations and publications such as Foundation News, NPR, and NIH, and also as a teacher, most recently at Howard University. She co-founded Pond Road Press, which published Tough Heaven: Poems of Pittsburgh by Jack Gilbert. Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, she lives in North Truro, Massachusetts.