Mary Mackey

Mary Lou Mackey (born 1945) is an American novelist, poet, and academic. She has written eight collections of poetry and fourteen novels, including the New York Times best-seller A Grand Passion. Notable among her works are The Village of Bones, The Year The Horses Came, The Horses At The Gate, and The Fires of Spring, which explore the earth-centered, Goddess-worshipping cultures of Neolithic Europe. In 2012, her poetry collection Sugar Zone received the PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award. Her collection The Jaguars That Prowl Our Dreams: New and Selected Poems 1974 to 2018 won the 2018 Women's Spirituality Book Award and the 2019 Eric Hoffer Small Press Award. Mackey's debut novel, Immersion, was the first novel published by a Second Wave feminist press and she often addresses environmental issues in her writing.