Publications

Books

The Rooms of Heaven

The Deep Limitless Air:  A Memoir in Pieces

The Rooms of Heaven was published by Alfred A. Knopf (1999) and Vintage Books (2000).  The Deep Limitless Air:  A Memoir in Pieces was published by Blue Light Press (2022). Both are available on Amazon and in your local bookstore.

Other Works

Mary Allen has a regular personal perspectives blog on the Psychology Today website.  https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/adventures-in-healing/202202/

Two essays by Mary Allen have been awarded prizes in Tiferet Journal’s spiritual writing contest.  “At the Monastery” won first prize and “The Deep Limitless Air” received one of three top runner-up prizes.

Mary Allen has also published articles and essays in Poets and WritersReal Simple, CNN Online, The Chaos, and Library Journal, and in two anthologies, The Love Book and If I Don’t Make It, I Love You: Survivors in the Aftermath of School Shootings; short stories in Shenandoah and Beloit Fiction Journal, and poetry in the Spoon River Poetry Review.   She is a featured blogger on the website for Psychology Today.  She compiled and edited five original anthologies, published in large print by G. K. Hall.