Mary L. Tabor was a high school English teacher who bridged the gap to the business world, rising on the corporate ladder while also raising two children. She then made a transition from the business world to the creative world, leaving her corporate job when she was 50 to earn the MFA degree in Creative Writing.

Her book The Woman Who Never Cooked won Mid-List Press’s First Series Award. Mary’s experience spans the worlds of journalism, business, education and fiction writing.

Her fiction and essays have appeared recently in the anthology Electric Grace, Paycock Press, The Missouri Review, Chautauqua Literary Journal, Image, the Mid-American Review, River City, Chelsea, Hayden’s Ferry Review, American Literary Review and elsewhere.

She was a visiting writer at University of Missouri in Columbia (academic year 2006-07), teaches fiction writing at George Washington University, the Smithsonian’s Campus-on-the-Mall, and works with the DC library to reach less-privileged populations on how to begin writing about family, personal history and writing a story—the stuff of life. She’s been interviewed on XM Satellite Radio and Pacifica Radio to discuss Joyce, Shakespeare and others and her lifelong career-journey. She is a Woodrow Wilson Teaching Fellow.

The Woman Who

Never Cooked