Mary Jane White

Mary Jane White is a poet and translator who practiced law in Iowa. Since her retirement, she has published three new books.

WHAT IT TOOK TO RAISE MY SON WITH AUTISM: TO BE HIS OWN PERSON, LOOSE IN THE UNIVERSE. Nonfiction memoir by Mary Jane White (Gratitude Press, LLC, Decorah, Iowa, 2024, 690 pages, paperback and Kindle).

DRAGONFLY. TOAD. MOON. poems by Mary Jane White—welcomed by lyrical novelist Sandra Cisneros and a chorus of contemporary poets: Linda Gregerson, Judith Moffett, Lola Haskins, Denise Duhamel and Richard Katrovas—weaves her Southern childhood into a more tightly-strung warp— her son’s recovery from autism. General readers will find the poems accessible given the guidance of an editor’s note, a preface by Gary Mayerson, J.D. and an afterword by Dr. Eric Lovaas. Recommended reading and films about applied behavior analysis (ABA) are referenced for exceptional parents, grandparents, special educators and clinicians of all disciplines serving young children on the spectrum (Press 53, Winston-Salem, N.C., 2022. 78 pages.)

AFTER RUSSIA, Poems by Marina Tsvetaeva translated by Mary Jane White (Adelaide Books, NYC/Lisbon 2021 536 pages, English-only edition 2022.

Her first book Starry Sky to Starry Sky (1988) is still available worldwide in university libraries, and from Holy Cow! Press, and contains translations of Russian ‘Silver Age’ poet Marina Tsvetaeva’s long, lyric cycle, “Miles,” dedicated to Anna Akhmatova, which first appeared as an insert feature in The American Poetry Review.

An early letter press chapbook, The Work of the Icon Painter (1979) is long sold out.

A later translation letter press chapbook, New Year’s, an elegy for Rilke (Adastra Press, Easthampton, MA (2007) (300 copies) is long sold out and is held by 61 world-wide libraries with a Goodreads rating of 4.4.