Snakeberry Mamas is the debut chapbook from Mary Alice Dixon, set in the wilds of an Appalachian landscape of lust, where sex, song, and witchy women charm the reader with chant.
Snakeberry Mamas is the debut chapbook from Mary Alice Dixon, set in the wilds of an Appalachian landscape of lust, where sex, song, and witchy women charm the reader with chant.
Mary Alice Dixon is an award-winning poet, born in Appalachian coal dust and reared in Carolina red clay. She has a B.A. in Art History from Vassar College and an M.A. in Art History from Yale. Her passion for gardening and history shaped her work as a professor of architectural and landscape history, which she taught at universities in Charlotte, Minneapolis, and China. She gave invited lectures on design history to audiences in Finland, Canada, and throughout the United States. She has also served as a Guardian ad Litem for abused children and an advocate for unhoused families. Mary Alice has long volunteered with hospice, reading poetry to the dying and facilitating grief writing workshops for the bereaved. She is a multiple Pushcart nominee, winner of both the North Carolina Writers' Network Randall Jarrell Poetry Competition and the Poetry Society of South Carolina John Edward Johnson Prize. Mary Alice is also a past finalist for the NC Writers' Network Doris Betts Fiction Prize and for the NC Poetry Society Poet Laureate Award. Her work is in scores of publications, including Appalachian Places, Broad River Review, Fourth River, Gyroscope Review, Kakalak, Litmosphere, Main Street Rag, moonShine Review, Pinesong, North Dakota Quarterly, Stonecoast Review, storySouth, and elsewhere. She lives in Charlotte where she talks to the ghosts of her dead cats, Thomas Merton and Alice B. Toklas, and grows sunflowers in cow manure.
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