Wagner, Maryfrances

Missouri County: Independence

Genre: Poetry

Audience: Adult*

    *Poetry readings are for adults, but she has given writing workshops for students ranging  from the third grade through college.

Published Works:

Bandaged Watermelons and Other Rusty Ducks, Tonight Cicadas Sing, Mid-America Press, 1984; Savatore's Daughter, BookMark, 1995; Red Silk, Mid-America Press, 1999; Light Subtracts Itself, Mid-America Press, 2008.

Publications in Anthologies:  New Letters; Midwest Quarterly; Laurel Review; Beacon Review; Nebraska Review; Birmingham Review; Bearing Witness: Poetry by Teachers about Teaching, Memories and Memoirs, Anthology of Missouri Women Writers, Chance of a Ghost, Kansas City Outloud II, Book Mark, 1994; The Dream Book: An Anthology of Writing by Italian American Women, Schocken Books, 1987;Unsettling America:An Anthology of Contemporary Multicultural Poetry, Penguin, 1994,Co-Editor:  Missouri Poets: An Anthology, Book Mark, 1995.  

Awards: Thorpe Menn Book Award for Red Silk; nomination for Pushcart Prize forSalvatore's Daughter, American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation for The Dream Book, Stanley Hanks Poetry and Potpourri Awards.

Have any works been translated into other languages? Yes; Italian translation of work for The Dream Book.

Speaking Engagements:

Author accepts.
Fee for speaking:  Variable
Limitations on travel:  Variable

Contact Information:

Mid-America Press, Robert C. Jones or David Anstaett
222 W. Gay Street
Warrensburg, MO. 64093
(660)747-3481
E-mail:  rnjones@lland.net