About Me

Mary Potter Kenyon has been writing ever since she was a little girl with an Indian Chief tablet.  She has had over 200 articles and essays published in newpapers and magazines such as Home Education, The Sun, Back Home, Backwoods Home, Our Iowa, The Writer, among others. Essays of hers have appeared in Chicken Soup for the Mother’s Soul, Voices of Caregiving, Love is a Flame,  Chicken Soup for the Soul: Answered Prayers, God Makes Lemonade, Chicken Soup for the Soul: Food and Love, Chicken Soup for the Soul: Messages from Heaven, and Women Reinvented.   Mary is currently working on an ethnographic research book about couponing. Mary and her husband David live with four of their eight children in Manchester, Iowa. See Mary’s website at http://marypotterkenyon.writersresidence.com/