Mary K. Lindberg is an accomplished poet, musician, and performer whose work explores links between art, music, dance, and literature. 

Her chapbook, The Tang of Glue, appeared in 2006 (Puddinghouse Publications). Her prize-winning poems have been published in Beloit Poetry Journal, Blueline, The Ekphrastic Review, Gallery&Studio, and Evening Street Review, among others. Several poems were selected for the River of Stars: Poets of the Vineyard Anthology (Artists Embassy International, 2022). She contributes often to the journal Waterways: Poetry in the Mainstream.

Her published essays cover connections between art and theater in the paintings and prints of William Hogarth (1697-1764) through dance, music, and satire, and in his book on aesthetic theory, The Line of Beauty (1753).

Among her numerous honors, Dr. Lindberg was the winner of the Grand Prize, Dancing Poetry Contest (2021), and was nominated Poet of the Month by United Poets Laureate International (December 2021, May 2023). She has also won prizes in the Ina Coolbrith Circle poetry contests. Her nonfiction essay about 9/11 won the prestigious PEN award.

While earning her doctorate in English at New York University, she studied at Oxford and, earlier, at the Eastman Music School. She was a tenured Associate Professor at California State University, Northridge, and a Mellon Fellow at the University of California, Los Angeles.

She has also spent time in the corporate world.  She had a pioneering role in the realm of global technology for New York City financial institutions where she was vice president for communications. See https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/object/nmah_1443545

She currently resides and writes in New York City.