Mary Jane Nealon worked as a nurse for forty-seven years. She retired as the Director of Innovations at a community health center network in Montana. She received an MFA from Warren Wilson College. She has received fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown and the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, and she was the Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Fellow in 2004-2005. She has two poetry collections: Rogue Apostle and Immaculate Fuel, both from Four Way Books. Her memoir, Beautiful Unbroken: One Nurse’s Life was published by Graywolf Press. She lives in Wall Township, NJ.