Mary Anna Kruch is a career educator and writer, having taught middle school and university students for almost 50 years. Presently, she supervises student teachers when she is not writing or making time to be with family near and far.

Recent poetry has been inspired by Mary Anna’s Italian family near Rome, the family farm in Northern Michigan, long-term relationships, family history, travel, social justice issues, and nature. Mary Anna leads a monthly writing workshop, Williamston Community Writers; her poetry has most recently been published in River Poets Journal, The Wayne Review, Trinity Review, Portage Magazine, Red Wolf Journal, The Mark Literary Review, The Remembered Arts Journal, and an anthology, Loss: What Comes Next. Along with several professional papers, Mary Anna has previously published a textbook, Tend Your Garden: Nurturing Motivation in Young Adolescent Writers (Sheffield, UK: Equinox Publishing Ltd., 2012), a chapbook, We Draw Breath from the Same Sky (Finishing Line Press, 2019), and now her first full-length collection, a memoir.

This most recent poetry collection touches upon family here and in Italy, mental illness, assault, the healing attributes of nature, and our connection with each human being, in particular those who experience loss or estrangement from loved ones.

Grace Notes: A Memoir in Poetry and Prose is now available from Goldfish Press.

Find Mary Anna on the Poets and Writers directory here.