Mary K. O’Melveny, a recently retired labor rights attorney, lives in Washington DC and Woodstock NY. Mary’s poetry has appeared in Allegro Poetry Magazine, GFT Press, The Flagler Review, The Write Place At The Write Time, The Offbeat and Into the Void, and blog sites such as “Writing in a Woman’s Voice.” Mary’s poem “Cease Fire” won the 2017 Raynes Poetry Competition sponsored by Jewish Currents Magazine and appears in the anthology “Borders and Boundaries” (Blue Threads Press 2017). “A Short Bibliography of Secrets” was a Finalist for The Poet Billow’s 2017 Pangaea Prize.