Mary Alice Dixon

Mary Alice Dixon grew up in Carolina red clay mixed with Appalachian coal dust. She is a Pushcart nominee and winner of the NC Writers' Network 2024 Randall Jarrell Poetry Competition. She has also been a finalist for the NC Poetry Society Poet Laureate Award, for the Broad River Review Rash Award in Poetry and for the NC Writers' Network Doris Betts Prize in Fiction. Her work has been shortlisted for the Anthology (Ireland) Poetry Competition Award.

Mary Alice's work appears in dozens of anthologies, books and journals including Anti-Heroin Chic, Bark & Blossom, Braided Way, Capsule Stories, Clayjar Review, Fourth River, Gyroscope Review, Hard to Find:  An Anthology of New Southern Gothic, inScribe, Kakalak, Litmosphere, Main Street Rag, moonShine Review, Mythic Circle, North Dakota Quarterly, Northern Appalachia Review, Now or Never, Petigru Review, Pinesong, Poetry of the Wild Flowers: Tiny Seed Poetry Anthology, Skeleton Flowers, The Raven's Perch, Stonecoast Review, storySouth, Sunlight Press, That Southern Thing and elsewhere.

Mary Alice lives in Charlotte, NC where she has long been involved with hospice. For many years she has companioned the dying in nursing homes, often reading poetry at bedsides. She also conducts grief writing workshops for hospice and other groups. These workshops gather the bereaved into the making of new nature rituals, found poems and sharing plenty of blueberry scones. Mary Alice also grows sunflowers with horseradish and walks with the ghosts of her dead cats, Thomas Merton and Alice B. Toklas.