Mary Alice Dixon finds poems and prayers in plants, stars, and the faces of the dying. She has long volunteered with hospice, reading poetry to those at the end of life and facilitating writing workshops for the bereaved and for hospice staff. Mary Alice 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 as well as a past finalist for the Broad River Review Rash Award in Poetry and for the NC Poetry Society Poet Laureate Award. Her work appears in dozens of publications, including Braided Way, inScribe, Plant People: An Anthology of Environmental Artists, Soul Forte, storySouth, and elsewhere. Her new chapbook, Snakeberry Mamas: Words from the Wild (Charlotte Lit Press, Sept. 2025), is a lyrical look at Appalachian folklore and healings. Mary Alice lives in Charlotte, NC where she grows sunflowers in cow manure. Find her at www.maryalicedixon.com