Mary Schanuel has been a writer since she could hold a pencil and has published non-fiction, entertainment reviews, poetry and short fiction since she was 18. Her work has been published by the New York Times “At Home,” Working Mother, Organic Gardening, Los Angeles Daily News, Feral: A Journal of Poetry and Art, The Heartbeat, FictionWeek Literary Review, LifeSherpa and St. Louis Public Radio. She has written two novels, and her poetry appeared in In the Moment – Writing from a Spacious Mind, an anthology of poems by the Missouri Zen Writers Group.