Mary D'Amore

Mary D’Amore is a writer and illustrator whose work bridges folklore and literary adaptation.

An artist and storyteller, D’Amore has written and illustrated seventeen children’s books drawing on folklore and historical legend, reflecting a lifelong fascination with how history, myth, and place shape the stories we tell.

D’Amore spent more than three decades in education: an early childhood education project, Toddler Town; a New Jersey public school consortium, the Piaget Math Project and editor of its publication, “The Constructive Teacher;” and technology coordinator and computer teacher at an independent school in Princeton, NJ, authoring annual technology plans, developing computer science curricula, writing documentation for all aspects of data management, and was contributing editor of the course newsletter, “Friendly User.”

She lives on the Sourland Mountain in New Jersey, where she continues to write, paint, and research local history for future projects.

Her debut novel, Sourland Farm, reimagines Emily Brontė’s Wuthering Heights on the Sourland Mountain of New Jersey, exploring love, revenge, and inheritance within a modern gothic landscape. Set between 1969 and 2002, the novel unites Brontė’s psychological depth with the history and folklore of rural America.