Mary Pauline Lowry worked for two years as a wildland firefighter on the elite Pike Interagency Hotshot Crew. “Hotshots are the best-trained and best-equipped wildland firefighters, sometimes referred to as the Navy SEALs of their profession” (Rolling Stone Magazine). Lowry has since worked in the movement to end violence against women as a counselor at a domestic violence shelter, advocate on the National Domestic Violence Hotline, and public policy analyst at the Texas Council on Family Violence.
Her writing has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The New York Times, xoJane, HelloGiggles, Huffington Post and other publications. She has an essay forthcoming in the May 2017 issue of O: the Oprah Magazine.
Her writing has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The New York Times, xoJane, HelloGiggles, Huffington Post and other publications. She has an essay forthcoming in the May 2017 issue of O: the Oprah Magazine.
