Marjorie Gowdy writes at home in the Blue Ridge mountains. Gowdy was Founding Executive Director of The Ohr-OKeefe Museum of Art in Biloxi, MS, which she led for 18 years. Now retired, she works in other fields that fed her love of writing, including as a grant writer.
Her poetry has been published in Artemis Journal, Floyd County Moonshine, Valley Voices (Mississippi Valley State University), Moonstone Arts Center’s books Haiku and Struggle for Liberty, Clinch River Review, Dead Mule School of Southern Literature, the book Quilted Poems, with art in the spring 2022 issue of Orange Peel Magazine, Friends’ Journal, the international magazine of the Quakers, among many others. Her chapbook, Inflorescence, was published in spring 2023 by Finishing Line Press. Her essays are included in Katrina: Mississippi Women Remember.
