Interviewing the literary and the fascinating. Recent interviews include poet and former head of the NEA Dana Gioia, poet and author of The Paper Garden Molly Peacock, NPR book reviewer Alan Cheuse and coming up: Margaret Brown, publisher of the the digital magazine on literary fiction, poetry and more Shelf Unbound (scheduled for March 27, 2013). All interviews can be accessed through the Rare Bird Radio link and here: http://www.goodreads.com/group/show/82279-who-by-fire-online-book-group

Mary L. Tabor’s experience spans the worlds of journalism, business, education, fiction and memoir writing. She was a high school English teacher who joined the business world, leaving her corporate job when she was 50 to earn an MFA degree. She is the author of the novel Who by Fire, the memoir (Re)Making Love: a sex after sixty story and the collection of connected short stories The Woman Who Never Cooked. She teaches at George Washington University, works with less-privileged populations at the D.C. library on how to get started writing, and is a Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellow. She lives in the Penn Quarter in downtown D.C.

The Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellows program, which is administered by the Council of Independent Colleges (CIC) in Washington, DC, brings prominent artists, diplomats, journalists, business leaders, and other nonacademic professionals to campuses across the United States for a week-long residential program of classes, seminars, workshops, lectures, and informal discussions. For 35 years, the Visiting Fellows have been introducing students and faculty members at liberal arts colleges to a wide range of perspectives on life, society, community, and achievement. The Visiting Fellows program is available to all four-year colleges and universities

Collection of Short Stories: The Woman Who Never Cooked (April 2006) Winner 2004 Mid-List First Series Award for Short Fiction, publication April 2006. In the Woman Who Never Cooked, Mary L. Tabor’s fictions concern sex, adultery, death, and food—in sum, a woman’s life—and take us on a dizzying cook's tour of life’s betrayals. Her characters, facing loss or rejection, go a bit mad in their obsession over what can be hidden and what cannot. All of them cook as antidote to the poison of deception. But what if the woman hidden at the heart of this book discovers one day that she no longer can cook?

Mary L. Tabor's website: Essays on art, literature, and culture. Links to her books, her newspaper column on the arts, her radio show on Rare Bird Radio and introductions to writers worth knowing.Go to http://www.maryltabor.com for full details.

Facts & Arts is an internet publication that functions as a platform for writers of quality content and whose target audience is individuals, worldwide, who want to expand their intellectual life beyond their particular professional specialty.Mary L. Tabor writes essays on literature and film, but don't miss the occasional essay on love in the arts.

Mary Tabor published her first book of fiction at age 60 after a 16-year career in corporate America, a senior executive, director of public affairs writing for the oil industry’s trade association, landing her in both Who’s Who in America and Who’s Who of American Women. She was a high school English teacher who bridged the gap to the business world, rising on the corporate ladder while also raising two children. She then made a transition from the business world to the creative world, leaving her corporate job when she was 50 to earn an MFA degree in Creative Writing. Her book The Woman Who Never Cooked won Mid-List Press’s First Series Award. Tabor’s experience spans the worlds of journalism, business, education and fiction writing. She was a visiting writer at University of Missouri in Columbia, teaches fiction writing at George Washington University, the Smithsonian’s Campus-on-the-Mall, and works with the DC library to reach less-privileged populations on how to begin writing about family, personal history and writing a story—the stuff of life. She’s been interviewed on XM Satellite Radio and Pacifica Radio to discuss Joyce, Shakespeare and others and her lifelong career-journey.

Taught seminars in the graduate Ph.D. Creative Writing program as well as intermediate and advanced fiction writing to undergraduates.

Director of API's Public Affairs Writing Department (1989-1996).Direct staff of 14 in development of public affairs materials; work with members of industry to develop strategies on legislative issues; oversee all public affairs writing projects and publications. Responsible for establishing and overseeing educational partnership between API and the National Science Teachers Association to reform high school science curricula. Acted for Vice President Public Affairs in his absence. Received API Special Awards Bonus 1990 and 1995. Manager, Writer, Editor-in-chief, Public Affairs (1980-1989).

Taught English grades 12 and 12 honors, grade 10; advised literary magazine. Voted teacher of the year 1970.