Mary Rose O'Reilley is an American poet, novelist, and writer of non-fiction.

O'Reilley was born in Pampa, Texas, and educated in Roseville and Saint Paul, Minnesota. She was raised a Catholic and is now a member of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). She has spent time in Buddhist practice, in particular under Thich Nhat Hanh.^[1] She graduated from the College of St. Catherine and completed her Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee.

From 1978 to 2006, she taught English and environmental studies at the College/University of St. Thomas.^[2]

O'Reilley lives on an island in Puget Sound.^[3]

• 2005 Walt Whitman Award
• Contemplative Studies Grant from the American Council of Learned Societies
• Bush Artist Grant
• McKnight Award of Distinction
• 2018 Brighthorse Prize for the novel (Bright Morning Stars)

• "The Plain Speech". Orion Magazine. March–April 2009.
• "The Abandoned Farm". Poetry. March 2007.
• Alice Peck, ed. (2008). "Key Lime Pie". Bread, Body, Spirit. SkyLight Paths Publishing. ISBN 978-1-59473-242-3.

• Bright Morning Stars. Bright Horse Books. 2018. ISBN 978-1-944467-14-2.

• Earth, Mercy. Louisiana State University Press. 2013.
• Half Wild. Louisiana State University Press. 2006. ISBN 978-0-8071-3162-6. Mary Rose O Reilley.

• O'Reilley, Mary Rose (2000). The Barn at the End of the World. ISBN 978-1-57131-254-9.
• The Garden at Night. Heinemann
• Radical Presence. Heinemann
• The love of impermanent things: a threshold ecology. Milkweed Editions. 2006. ISBN 978-1-57131-283-9.
• The Peaceable Classroom. Boynton/Cook. November 17, 1993. ISBN 978-0-86709-328-5.

• "Sellers Motivated". Ploughshares. Winter 2007–2008. Archived from the original on January 28, 2016.
• "Improving the Neighborhood". Ploughshares. Winter 2007–2008. Archived from the original on January 28, 2016.
• "Cleaning the Basement". Ploughshares. Winter 2007–2008. Archived from the original on January 28, 2016.