Mary Cappello is the author of five books of literary nonfiction, including Awkward: A Detour; Swallow, and Life Breaks In: A Mood Almanack. Buffalo Trace: A Threefold Vibration, co-authored with James Morrison and Jean Walton, was published in 2018. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, Salon.com, The Huffington Post, on NPR, and Best American Essays. A Guggenheim and Berlin Prize Fellow, a recipient of The Bechtel Prize for Educating the Imagination, and the Dorothea Lange-Paul Taylor Prize, Cappello is a former Fulbright Lecturer at the Gorky Literary Institute (Moscow), and Professor of English and creative writing at the University of Rhode Island.
