Mary Mackey and Jeremy DeWayne Greene

The 3/11/2026 edition of Dr. Andy's Poetry and Technology Hour

Mary Mackey is a bestselling author and award-winning poet who has written fourteen novels some of which have appeared on the New York Times and San Francisco Chronicle Bestseller Lists. She is also the author of nine volumes of poetry including The Jaguars That Prowl Our Dreams, winner of a the 2019 Eric Hoffer Award for Best Book Published by a Small Press and a 2018 CIIS Women’s Spirituality Book Award; Sugar Zone, winner of the 2012 Oakland PEN Josephine Miles Award for Literary Excellence; and Creativity, a non-fiction exploration of how ideas and bursts of insight come, not just to writers, but to us all. In 2025 Marsh Hawk Press published In This Burning World: Poems of Love and Apocalypse, a collection which not only asks us to imagine what the world will be like as the Earth’s climate changes, but how we can preserve joy and compassion in times of catastrophe.

Dr. Jeremy DeWayne Greene received a Bachelor of the Arts in Psychology with a Minor in African American & African Studies from the University of California-Davis (UCD). He also received his Masters of the Arts in Education (School Psychology) and Pupil Personnel Services Credential from California State University-Sacramento (CSUS). Mr. Greene is a Nationally Certified School Psychologist via the National Association of School Psychologists (NASP) and, in his spare time, writes, records, and performs spoken word poetry around Shanghai. Though previously from Sacramento (California), Mr. Greene connects strongly with his familial roots firmly planted in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. 

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