Mountain Girl Press

Mary Kuykendall Weber holds a bachelor’s degree from West Virginia University and a MA from the State University of New York.   She has written more than l00 short stories, seven of which have appeared in small press anthologies and ten winning awards.  She won the 2008 George Garrett Fiction Prize awarded annually by the Texas Review Press and Sam Houston University for“River Roots,” a collection of 37 short stories based on growing up in West Virginia.    The stories interrelate to give a total view of river valley life, then and now, as the characters struggle to survive in a world which appears indifferent as they face adverse social conditions beyond their control.   The book is available on Amazonbooks.com.   Mary was born on a farm in West Virginia and came to Schenectady, New York as a publicist for GE.  She holds a bachelor’s degree from West Virginia University and a MA from the State University of New York.  She also wrote a play, Gold Collars, a satire of how bankers and overpaid CEOs have hijacked the economy, leaving the blue, pink and white collar middle class struggling.  It will be read by an NPR station in Seattle in June, 2011.