Julie Marie Wade launches The Mary Years w Heidi Czerwiec & Allison Blevins

Who’s your hero? What television show did you binge-watch, even before “binge-watching” was part of our vernacular? For Julie Marie Wade, the hero is Mary Tyler Moore, the television show, The Mary Tyler Moore Show. From its premiere on Nick at Nite in 1992 until the death of its eponymous lead actress in 2017, this nonfiction novella follows our protagonist from her pre-teen years in Seattle through tenure at an academic institution in Miami—a journey modeled in surprising, tender, and humorous ways on Mary’s own journey from Roseburg to Minneapolis, to the WJM newsroom and beyond.

Julie Marie Wade teaches in the creative writing program at Florida International University in Miami. Her newest projects are The Mary Years (Texas Review Press, 2024), selected by Michael Martone as the winner of the 2023 Clay Reynolds Novella Prize, and the forthcoming Quick Change Artist: Poems (Anhinga Press, 2025), selected by Octavio Quintanilla as the winner of the 2023 Anhinga Poetry Prize.

Essayist and poet Heidi Czerwiec is the author of Crafting the Lyric Essay: Strike a Chord, and the lyric essay collection Fluid States, winner of Pleiades Press’ 2018 Robert C. Jones Prize for Short Prose, and she is also the co-editor of The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing the Lyric Essay, forthcoming in early 2026. She writes and teaches in Minneapolis, where she is Senior Editor for Assay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies.

Allison Blevins (she/her) is a queer disabled writer. She is the author of Where Will We Live if the House Burns Down?, winner of the 2023 Lexi Rudnitsky Editor’s Choice Award, and three other full length collections. She is also the author of five chapbooks. Allison is the Founder and Director of Small Harbor Publishing. She lives in Minnesota with her spouse and three children. allisonblevins.com

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