Mary Kinney is a writer and editor living in Brooklyn. She is also pursuing an MFA in Creative Nonfiction at the New School.
She regularly cries in planetariums, reads about plant life (edible weeds are her favorite), and makes her own soap. Mary finds daily inspiration from Oliver Sacks, the 84-year-old woman who lives downstairs, and Solange Knowles. She also has a cat with two teeth, whom she loves dearly.
Her current passion project is a memoir about her aunt, who died in the infamous Willowbrook School in 1960. It is a story about honoring Mary Anne, who died at just 2 and a half years old, but also about inherited trauma and mental health institutions over the past several decades. She hopes you will read it one day.