Mara’s latest manuscript, Lamentations of the Tattoo Queen, named Donna Wolf Palacio Poetry Book Competition First Place Winner.

From the birth-to-death references in this collection’s first poem, the most beautiful mummy in the world, to the culminating section of poems and drawings, Form in Space this collection explores the poet’s deeply felt sense of place, geography, and lived vocation, alongside historical deeds and accomplishments of important but often little-known women artists, scientists, and explorers.