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This poem is from the chapbook The Conjurer Keeps House by Mary Redman (Finishing Line Press), and can be found at https://finishinglinepress.com/product/the-conjurer-keeps-house-by-mary-redman/
Mary Redman is a writer from Indiana. She graduated from Ball State University majoring in Art Education and English, later earning her M.A. in English there, as well. Her teaching career spanned thirty-three years, primarily teaching high school English. After retiring from teaching, Mary worked as a university supervisor for the Schools of Education at both Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) and University of Indianapolis (UIndy), where she mentored pre-service teachers. During the same period, she became serious about her writing and since 2015 has published her poems in a variety of literary journals. Mary’s work was nominated once for a Pushcart Prize, and three of her poems were selected for the Indiana Poetry Archive Inverse in 2024. The Conjurer Keeps House will be her first published chapbook. Mary lives and writes in Indianapolis and serves as a docent at the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields.
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