Mary Newell lives in the lower Hudson Valley. Her publications include poems, essays—"Shades of Melancholy" appears in Melancholia: Hinge as Innominate Limina by Will Alexander, Heller Levinson, and Mary Newell—and entries on Dickinson and Whitman in the Encyclopedia of the Environment in American Literature. Dr. Newell (MA Columbia, BA Berkeley) received a doctorate from Fordham University in American Literature and the Environment. She has taught literature and writing at the college level.
