Mary Karmelek is a writer whose work touches upon art, architecture, cultural heritage, cities, and the body.

Her fiction, criticism, and journalism has appeared in such places as The Brooklyn Rail, Public Seminar, Hyperallergic, Newsweek, and elsewhere.

She is a contributor to Publisher’s Weekly and a current Emerging Critic with the National Book Critics Circle. Mary also hosts the Two-Faced Reading and Variety series at Green Lung Studios in Red Hook, Brooklyn.

Originally from Buffalo, NY and proud of it, Mary holds an MFA in Creative Writing from The New School and an MA in English Literature from Fordham University.

She and is currently completing her first novel and lives in Sunset Park, Brooklyn.