Mary Bonina is a Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Fellow, Warren Wilson MFA, and member of the Writers Room of Boston. Credits include poetry collections, Clear Eye Tea and Living Proof, My Father’s Eyes: A Memoir, a completed novel on submission, Poets and Writers and Adelaide essays, poetry anthologized and in Hanging Loose, Salamander, etc. A Boston Contemporary Authors winning poem is now permanent public art. Several poems were set to music by composers Paul Sayed and Christopher Montgomery.