Maria Rachel Hooley has written over 20 novels, including  When Angels Cry, New Life Incorporated, and October Breezes.  Her poetry has been published in more than 80 national literary magazines.   Some of her short fiction has been published in Nocturnal Ooze and Combat  Magazine.  Her non-fiction has been featured in Red River Family and Byline magazine.   Her first chapbook of poetry was published by Rose Rock Press in 1999.  When she isn't teaching English to high school and college students, she is working on her next book.  She lives in Oklahoma with her husband and three children.  As a parent of a child on the autism spectrum, she is also an advocate for education about autism.

         

You can contact me at:  mariahooley@sbcglobal.net

"You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend."
                   --Paul Sweeney

"A book comes and says, 'Write me.'"  My job is to try to serve it to the best of my ability, which is never good enough, but all I can do is listen to it, do what it tells me, and collaborate."
                 --Madeleine L'Engle


The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract.
                 --Robert Heinlein