Mary Peelen, M.Div., MFA, is a poet and writer who lives in San Francisco and Paris. Her writing has appeared in The Massachusetts Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Michigan Quarterly Review, Harvard Divinity Bulletin, New Critique, Poetry Review (UK), and other journals. Her debut poetry collection, Quantum Heresies (Glass Lyre Press), won the 2019 Kithara Book Prize. She received an MDiv from the GTU in Berkeley and an MFA from San Francisco State University.