Mary Koncel
Mary Koncel is an American poet who has published three books of poetry. She is known for writing prose poetry. Biography 
Koncel was born and raised in Chicago and holds a BFA in Poetry from Columbia College Chicago and MFA in English from MFA Program for Poets & Writers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She lives in Worthington, Massachusetts. Koncel teaches writing at Smith College, and is a writing consultant to Boston's Department of Public Health in the AIDS Bureau. Koncel is known for prose poetry that is a combination of humor and visual images. Koncel is also involved with the American Wild Horse Campaign, a group that finds homes for horses and burros on public lands in the United States. Grants and awards
 1996 - Poetry Grant, Massachusetts Cultural Council
 Finalist, the Norma Farber First Book Award

Bibliography

Books
 Closer to the Day (1999) - Quale Press
 You Can Tell The Horse Anything
 The Last Blonde - Hedgerow Books (2017)

Anthologies
 The Party Train: A Collection of North American Prose Poetry
 No Boundaries: Prose Poems by 24 American Poets (edited by Ray Gonzalez)
 The Best of the Prose Poem: An International Journal
 Real Things: An Anthology of Popular Culture in American Poetry
 Ladies, Start Your Engines: Women Writing on Cars and on the Road

Journal publications
 The Massachusetts Review
 The Journal
 The Illinois Review
 key satch(el)
 Denver Quarterly
 The Prose Poem: An International Journal

References

Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Columbia College Chicago alumni
University of Massachusetts Amherst MFA Program for Poets & Writers alumni
Smith College faculty
American women poets
Poets from Illinois
American women academics