Alabama Authors Directory

The Alabama Authors Directory is a resource for readers, editors, publishers, educators, librarians, program planners, and the simply curious to discover and learn more about writers with connections to the state.

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Mary Dansak

Hometown: Auburn, AL Lives in: Auburn, AL

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  • Email: maryfdansak@gmail.com

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About Mary Dansak

Genres: Nonfiction, Hybrid, Journalism

Available for: Readings, Workshops, In Person, Remote

Bio: I am a lifelong writer and a retired science education specialist. Currently, I work as a writer for G&L Farms, where I keep a chronicle of and capture reflections on daily life on a horse and cattle ranch. I also write a weekly column, Little Green Notebook, for a local newspaper, The Auburn Villager. Among other freelance work, I am a regular contributor to Magnolia and Moonshine, a print magazine out of Seale, Alabama. I’ve been a member of a writers group, The Mystic Order of East …Read More Alabama Fiction Writers, for about 20 years, and have co-authored three anthologies with the Mystics. I have dabbled in screenwriting for Steve Trash Science, a children’s educational television show, and have written copious science educational training guides.
Most of my writing is a hybrid of natural science and memoir, drawing on rich personal experiences with the natural world providing a casual yet informative backdrop to my observations and reflections.

Works: Column, Little Green Notebook, The Auburn Villager, August 2022-Present
Co-author: The Mystic Memoir, Village Smith Publishing, 2024
Screenwriter, Steve Trash Science, Season 2, Alabama Public Television, 2023
Co-author: The Art of Wench Cooking, …Read More Village Smith Publishing, 2018
Be the Flame, Solomon & George Publishers, 2014
Co-author: The Ploy of Cooking, Upper Creek Publishing, 2012
Various essays and stories in both print and online publications

Awards: Watch this space! I won a writing contest in first grade for my story, “The History of Tumbling,” and won a National Council of Teachers of English award in high school. I also won a poetry contest in high school which I did not enter. Surely, the …Read More best is yet to come!

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