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, y 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.
