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 will be published by Bluelight Press in May 2022.

Other Works

Click here for a personal perspective essay by Mary Allen on the Psychology Today website.  https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/adventures-in-healing/202202/what-i-learned-my-cats

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

Mary Allen has also published articles in Poets and WritersReal Simple, CNN Online, The Chaos, and Library Journal, and in the anthology 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 websites for Psychology Today and Tiferet Journal.  She compiled and edited five original anthologies, published in large print by G. K. Hall.