Born in Chicago, Mary Langer Thompson has traveled Route 66 to California where she lives today. She’s been to several countries in Europe and states in the U.S., including the real and the Las Vegas Venice and Paris. Her poetry appears in various journals and anthologies, most recently, Eating Her Wedding Dress: A Collection of Clothing Poems (Ragged Sky Press, 2009), J Journal, and Off the Coast.
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