Mary Elizabeth Parker’s poetry collections include The Sex Girl (Urthona Press, 1999) and two chapbooks, That Stumbling Ritual (Coraddi, 1980) and Breathing in a Foreign Country (Paradise, 1993). Her poetry has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and published in Earth and Soul (Sister Cities of Durham, 2001), an anthology published in English and Russian in the Kostroma region of Russia. [bio updated 2011]