B. 1944
Headshot of Mary Makofske

Photo by Michael Spadafina

Mary Makofske attended Douglass College and the University of Minnesota, where she earned an M.A. in English. Her two books are The Disappearance of Gargoyles (Thorntree Press, 1988) and Eating Nasturtiums (Flume, 1998). She has won several awards, including the Robert Penn Warren Prize from the Cumberland Review.