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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Grace is 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. She served as an editor for The Sentences That Create Us: Crafting a Writer's Life in Prison (Haymarket Books, 2022) and chairs the Nonfiction Award Committee of the PEN America Prison Writing and Justice Program. She also works as a fulfillment volunteer at Books Beyond Bars, a program that sends books to incarcerated New Yorkers.

 

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 and Cuttyhunk Island Residency. She is currently at work on her first novel.