Grace Kearney

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Grace is a science writer and essayist based in Brooklyn. Her essays have appeared in Hobart, The Baltimore Sun, Barren Magazine, The Other Journal, South Dakota Review, North Dakota Quarterly, and elsewhere. She has authored papers in a number of medical journals, including Journal of Palliative Medicine, Journal of Religion and Health, and Journal of Cancer Education. Her science writing is also featured regularly on damonrunyon.org.

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Since 2017, Grace has served on PEN America’s Prison Writing and Justice Committee, managing its annual writing contest and helping to disseminate work by imprisoned writers through anthologies and live events. She helped edit the program’s handbook, The Sentences That Create Us: Crafting a Writer’s Life in Prison (Haymarket Books, 2022).

She is also the co-author, with the late Dante Barksdale, of Growing Up Barksdale: A True Baltimore Story, available on Amazon and at your local bookstore, if you're in Baltimore.

 

Grace holds an MFA from the City College of New York, where her graduate thesis received the David Dortort Prize in Nonfiction. Her work has been supported by the Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Cuttyhunk Island Residency, and Graves Mill Farm Residency. She is currently at work on her first novel.