Mary K O’Melveny, a happily retired attorney, is the author of four poetry collections and a chapbook. Her most recent, If You Want To Go To Heaven, Follow A Songbird (Jerry Jazz Musician 2024) is an album of poems, art and music available at Jerry Jazz Musician. Mary’s award-winning poems have appeared in many print and online literary journals and anthologies and on international blog sites. Mary’s collection Flight Patterns was nominated for the Eric Hoffer Book Award. Her book, Merging Star Hypotheses (Finishing Line Press 2019) was a semi-finalist for The Washington Prize, sponsored by The Word Works. Mary has received three Pushcart Prize nominations. She is an active member of the Hudson Valley Women’s Writing Group and her poetry appears in the Group’s two published anthologies, An Apple In Her Hand and Rethinking The Ground Rules. Mary lives with her wife near Woodstock, New York. She is looking for a home for a fifth collection. Mary’s website is: https://www.marykomelvenypoet.com.