Mary Jo Thompson’s poems have appeared in the anthologies Best American Poetry and Another and Another from Bull City Press, and in Beloit Poetry Journal, Field, Prairie Schooner, Rhino, Indiana Review, Carolina Quarterly, Great River Review, Sow’s Ear Poetry Review, and Minnesota Monthly, among other journals. Poems that appeared in Field and Rhino were nominated for the 2014 Pushcart Prize. Thompson holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the Warren Wilson College Program for Writers and teaches arts education at St. Mary’s University in Minneapolis, MN.