Mary Minock’s most recently published book is a memoir of her childhood in Southwest Detroit entitled The Way-Back Room (Bottom Dog Press, 2011).  Her recent poetry appears in Driftwood Review, The MacGuffin, MARGIE, Mid-America, Patterson Literary Review, and in the Detroit anthologyAbandon Automobile. Recent awards include: a Ginsberg Poetry Award, and Finalist status in the Atlanta Review and Nimrod prizes.  She has twice won the Gwendolyn Brooks Award from the Society for the Study of Midwest Literature for her narrative poems.  She has just completed a new poetry book manuscript, entitled The Wildflowers of Detroit, which blends narrative and lyric poetry from the past and the present.