Mary Ricketson

Mary Ricketson, Murphy NC, works as mental health counselor and blueberry farmer. Her published poetry collections are I Hear the River Call My Name, Hanging Dog Creek, Shade and Shelter, Mississippi: The Story of Luke and Marian, Keeping in Place, and Lira, Poems of a Woodland Woman, Precious the Mule, and her newest: STUTTERS, A Book of Hope, and her newest, Tall Flowers and Living Long, published July 1, 2025, Redhawk Publications.

She won first place in the 2011 Joyce Kilmer Memorial Forest 75th anniversary national poetry contest.