Madeleine Mysko is the author of two novels, Bringing Vincent Home and Stone Harbor Bound, and a poetry collection, Crucial Blue. With three other Baltimore-area poets she is also the author of In the Margins: A Conversation in Poetry. Among her honors are Individual Artist grants in both poetry and fiction from the State of Maryland. During the Vietnam War, she served as a nurse on the burn ward at Brooke Army Medical Center; she has long been a member of Veterans for Peace. A graduate of the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars, she has taught creative writing in the Baltimore-Washington region for years, most recently at Goucher College.

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