Mary L. Tabor

Mary L. Tabor is the author of Who by Fire: a novel (November 2012). Her connected short stories The Woman Who Never Cooked won Mid-List Press’s First Series Award. Her short stories have won numerous literary awards. Her memoir (Re)Making Love is a modern real-life love story that has been profiled in Real Simple magazine. Her experience spans the worlds of journalism, business, education, fiction and memoir writing, landing her in both Marquis Who’s Who in America and Marquis Who’s Who of American Women and she is a Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellow. She taught creative writing for more than a decade at George Washington University, was a visiting writer and professor at University of Missouri-Columbia in their graduate creative writing program. The Smithsonian’s Resident Associates Campus-on-the-Mall, where she taught for many years, has called her “One of our most prized lecturers” on the subjects of getting started as a writer and starting late. She has appeared on the XM Satellite radio book-talk show “This Is Audible” to discuss James Joyce’s Ulysses and Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet.