Mary C. M. Phillips is a caffeinated wife, mother, writer, poet, and musician. Her poetry and inspirational essays have been widely published.
As a spoken-word artist, she has read/performed at the Walt Whitman Historical Birthplace, WordHive, Bards Revolution, BlogTalk radio and WCWP’s Rock-n-Soul Gospel radio. Mary’s poems can be read in Lancaster, Pennsylvania’s public transportation (2024 & 2025) via the POETRY IN TRANSIT campaign (sponsored by WordHive).
Many of her inspirational and faith-based essays can be read in the international bestselling series, Chicken Soup for the Soul (Simon and Schuster).
With a particular fondness for Jane Austen, Mary’s Austen-related material can be read on literary blogs, online Austen articles, and in the book, What Jane Austen Didn’t Tell Us (Austen Alliance).
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As a musician, Mary has recorded and toured nationally with several alt-rock major label recording artists (such as Matthew Sweet, Don Dixon, Marti Jones) as well as comedian, Rob Bartlett and satirist, Barry Mitchell on ABC’s World News Now. She and Cathy Harrington were collectively known as 80s synth-pop duo, Venus II (New Islands/Pleasure of Love).
Mary’s latest spoken-word work, Music of the Forest (Rock-it Science Records) was produced by husband and guitarist, Mark Phillips. She occasionally plays keyboards alongside Mark for online poetry readings, in the Christian rock band, Red Words, as well as NY 80s rock band, Broken Arrow.
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To satisfy her talkative inner life, Mary enjoys hanging out with her family, composing poems, and writing in the third person.
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