Mary Fontana trained as a scientist and did infectious disease research for a decade before turning to writing full-time. Her first book, a narrative history of the migrant house of hospitality where she has volunteered for the past two decades, is forthcoming from Orbis Books. Her poems have been nominated for Best of the Net and appeared in Prairie Schooner, The Seneca Review, Rust + Moth, SWWIM Everyday, Moss, and elsewhere. She lives in Seattle with her husband and two children.
