Mary Jane White

Mary Jane White is a retired trial lawyer who also holds a MFA Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and has been awarded two NEA Fellowships, one in poetry and one in translation. Her Tsvetaeva translations appear along with early original poems in Starry Sky to Starry Sky (Holy Cow! Press 1988) New Year’s, an elegy for Rilke (Adastra Press 2007); Poets Translate Poets, (Syracuse 2013). After Russia: Poems of an Emigrant: After Russia, Poem of the Hill, Poem of the End and New Year’s (a bilingual text) is forthcoming later in 2021 from Adelaide Books (NYC/Lisbon), and a new book of original poems Dragonfly.  Toad.  Moon. is forthcoming in April 2022 from Press 53 (Winston-Salem, N.C.) Contact her at maryjanewhite@gmail.com.