Mary K O’Melveny, a retired labor rights lawyer, lives with her wife in Washington DC and Woodstock, NY. Mary’s award-winning poems have appeared in many print and on-line literary journals and anthologies and on national blog sites such as The New Verse News. She is the author of three poetry volumes (“A Woman of a Certain Age,” “Merging Star Hypotheses” and “Dispatches From The Memory Care Museum.” She has also co-authored two anthologies featuring writing by The Hudson Valley Women’s Writing Group (“An Apple In Her Hand” and “Rethinking The Ground Rules”).