Mary Ellen Geer

Mary Ellen Geer, a Boston-area poet, was a longtime editor at Harvard University Press. She is the author of three poetry chapbooks: At the Edge of the Known World, Life/Afterlife, and The Lost and the Found. Her poems have appeared in various journals including The Comstock Review, Slant, and The Charles River Review, and she is a past winner of the New England Poetry Club’s Boyle/Farber Award.

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