Mary Ann Cain's fiction, nonfiction essays, and poems have appeared in literary journals ranging from venerable standards such as The Denver Quarterly, The Sun: A Magazine of Ideas, The Bitter Oleander and The North American Review to experimental venues such as First Intensity and LIT. Her books include a biography of Chicago artist-teacher-activist Dr. Margaret Burroughs, South Side Venus: The Legacy of Margaret Burroughs (Northwestern University Press, 2018), a novel, Down from Moonshine (Thirteenth Moon Press, 2009), and two scholarly books, Composing Public Space: Teaching Writing in the Face of Private Interests (Heinemann, 2010) and Revisioning Writers' Talk: Gender and Culture in Acts of Composing (SUNY Press, 1995). HOW SMALL THE SKY REALLY DREAMS (Dos Madres Press, 2021) is her first collection of poetry. She is Professor of English at Purdue University Fort Wayne.