MARY BLOCK is the author of Love from the Outer Bands (Word Works). Her poems have appeared in Best New Poets 2020, Rhino, Nimrod International Journal, and Sonora Review, among other publications, and can be found online at Rattle Poetry, SWWIM Every Day, Aquifer: The Florida Review Online, and elsewhere. She is a graduate of New York University’s creative writing program, a 2018 Best of the Net finalist, a 2012 finalist for the Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation, and a Pushcart Prize nominee. Block lives in her hometown of Miami with her spouse, her young children, and her old dachshund. She is a senior editor and the director of development at SWWIM. Learn more at maryblock.net.
