Mary Clare Powell - Biography

Mary Clare Powell is a writer of prose and poetry, a photographer, and an arts educator (someone who teaches teachers how to integrate all of the arts into their curriculum, regardless of age or subject). She teaches teachers across the country, and formerly in Israel for the Creative Arts in Learning Division at Lesley University.
She has written This Way Daybreak Comes: Women’s Values and the Future (1986—with Annie Cheatham), The Widow (1981), Arts, Education and Social Change (edited with V. Speiser) as well as many articles on integrating the arts. Her poetry books include Things Owls Ate (1991), Academic Scat (poems about academia) (1995), and a chapbook In the Living Room (poems about aging).
She has returned to photography in recent years and experiments with juxtaposing hers and others’ words with her images.
She travels with her godson Sam, an actor; lives with her partner Violet in Greenfield, MA with one daughter 5 minutes in one direction, the second in the other direction. She has two grandchildren, Nate age 12 and Lily age 6. She serves on the steering committee of Fostering Arts in Franklin County, and on the Board of Trustees of Pioneer Valley Performing Arts Charter High School. She is having a late life adventure, which is taking place within herself.