She won the 2017 Poetry Society Members’ Competition and the 2016 Oxford Brookes International Poetry Competition (ESL), whilst being shortlisted for the 2016 London Magazine Poetry Prize, the 2016 Rialto Open Pamphlet Poetry Competition and the 2016 Resurgence Prize. Her work has appeared in The Poetry Review, PN Review (forthcoming), Ambit Magazine, The London Magazine, Callaloo Journal, The Rialto, Bare Fiction Magazine, The Scores, Tongue: A Journal of Writing & Art and elsewhere. A Callaloo and VONA Fellow, Mary-Jean is currently a Research Associate at the Royal Holloway Poetics Research Center at the University of London, and is a Co-Editor at Oxford Poetry.