Mary Elene Wood

Mary Elene Wood lives in Oregon with her partner Grace, teenage daughter, two dogs, and three cats. She writes fiction, essays, and memoir and likes to blend all three. Her work has appeared in the Missouri Review and the British Journal of Medical Ethics. Her book Life Writing and Schizophrenia: Encounters at the Edge of Meaning (Brill, 2013), which is mostly about other people’s writing, includes a chapter on her mother’s experience of living with schizophrenia. You can read a memoir excerpt here: The Capra Review.