Mary Thibodeaux Lentz lives with her husband in Eureka, California. They hike regularly in the nearby Redwood National and State parks, and her writing often reflects these experiences and her appreciation of the natural world. She also frequently reflects on how climate change is already being felt by the flora and fauna of the unique habitat of her region.
Her poems have appeared in the North Coast Journal, the Toyon (Cal Poly Humboldt’s literary journal), Wild Humboldt, and the Jefferson Journal. For three years, she worked as a freelance journalist for the Humboldt Beacon and wrote two monthly series for that newspaper. Her work includes: a poem in an anthology entitled To Troy and Back, a children’s story published in Cricket, and a non-fiction biography published in U.S. Catholic. Many photographs she’s taken have appeared in two regional newspapers,also.
Mary’s poem, “Ode to a Fish Tail,” was selected for illustration and exhibition in a show entitled, Where Poetry and Art Collide sponsored by the Ink People Center for the Arts in 2020. Her piece in U.S. Catholic won a third-place award for Best Personality Profile from the Catholic Press Association in 2011
