Mary Cornish

Mary Cornish (born 1948) was an American poet and a children's writer and illustrator.

Life
Cornish was originally an author and illustrator of children’s books. After a progressive disease struck her drawing hand, he enrolled in the M.F.A. program for creative nonfiction at Sarah Lawrence College, soon switching to poetry.

A former Wallace Stegner Fellow, she lives in Bellingham, Washington, where she teaches creative writing at Western Washington University.

Writing
Cornish's work is known for thoughtful investigations of domestic scenes, andfor exploring the relationships between art, artifice, and the past.