Mary Lane Kamberg

MARY-LANE KAMBERG is a professional writer and co-leader of the Kansas City Writers Group. She witnessed a total solar eclipse in Norfolk, Virginia, and a partial solar eclipse in Olathe, Kansas. As a child in Leawood, Kansas, she lay on the floor to watch a total lunar eclipse from a dining room window. (It took forever!) Her poetry has appeared in such anthologies as Illness and Grace/Terror and Transformation, Time of Sorrow/Times of Grace, Sacred Feathers, and Handprint in the Woods. It has also been published in Cicada, Coal City Review, Kansas City Star, Kansas City Voices, Mid-America Quarterly, Midwest Poetry Review, The Ozarks Mountaineer, Potpourri, Writer's Journal and more. Finishing Line Press published her chapbook, Seed Rain, in 2015. She has been honored as a Kansas Poet and is listed in the Poets & Writers Directory of American Poets and Fiction Writers.