The Spell of Coming (or Going)
Mary Lou Buschi lives in Larchmont, New York. Her poems have appeared or are appearing in Willow Springs, The Laurel Review, Indiana Review, Fourway Review, Cream City Review, The Collagist, Pank, Tar River Poetry, among others. Mary Lou has received fellowships from The Santa Fe Writer’s Conference, Vermont Studio Center, and The New York City Teaching Fellows. Currently, she is a special education teacher in the Bronx and an adjunct writing instructor for the Paul McGhee Division of New York University. Mary Lou is also a mentor for new teachers through the Teaching Resident Program at Teacher’s College, Columbia University. She earned an MFA in Poetry from the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers and a Masters of Science in Urban Education from Mercy College.