Mary Karmelek is a writer from Buffalo, NY whose work touches upon art, architecture, cultural heritage, cities, and the body. Her fiction and criticism has appeared in The Brooklyn Rail, Public Seminar, Hyperallergic, Newsweek, and elsewhere. Mary holds an MFA in Creative Writing from The New School and an MA in English Literature from Fordham University, and is currently completing her first novel. She lives in Sunset Park, Brooklyn.
Latest Work
- REVIEW: Lara Mimosa Montes’s The Time of the Novel, The Brooklyn Rail, July-August 2025.
- In Search of the Sublime…Underground How far can art carry us through New York City’s broken subway system? Public Seminar, February 26, 2025.
- When Is It Time to Leave? Review of Overstaying by Ariane Koch. Public Seminar, January 30, 2025.
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