:: Mary Stewart Hammond was reared in Roanoke, Virginia and Baltimore, Maryland. Her poems have been published in many magazines, including American Poetry Review, The American Voice, The Atlantic Monthly, Boulevard, Field, The Gettysburg Review, The New Criterion, The New England Review, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and The Yale Review. Anthologies where her poems have appeared include Wedding Readings: Centuries of Writing and Rituals for Love and Marriage, Eternal Light: Grandparent Poems: A Twentieth-Century American Selection, The KGB Bar Book of Poems, Inventions of Farewell: A Book of Elegies, Stone and Steel, and Where Books Fall Open. Out of Canaan received the 1992 Best First Collection of Poetry Award from the Great Lakes Colleges Association. Other awards include MacDowell Colony and Yaddo fellowships, and a Writer's Community Poet-in-Residence fellowship. She lives in New York City.