Maryfrances Wagner has taught creative and academic writing for over twenty years, taught workshops at all levels, served as President of The Writers Place and is currently a Writers Place board member and chair of the Programming Committee. She is co-editor of I-70 Review and Whirlybird Anthology of Greater Kansas City Writers. She has published five collections to include Salvatore's Daughter, Red Silk,and Light Subtracts Itself.

Light Subtracts Itself (MidAmerica Press, 2008), Red Silk (Mid-America Press, 1999), Salvatore's Daughter (BookMark Press, 1995), Tonight Cicadas Sing (Mid-America Press, 1984), Bandaged Watermelons and Other Rusty Ducks (MidAmerica Press, 1978)

Kansas City Outloud II (BkMk Press-UMKC, 2014), In the Red, In the Black (Helicon Nine Editions, 2012), Imagination and Place: Seasonings (Imagination and Place Press, 2010), Imagination and Place: Ownership (Imagination and Place Press, 2009), Literature Across Cultures (Pearson Longman, 2008), Chance of a Ghost (Helicon Nine Editions, 2005), Bearing Witness (Zephyr Press, 2002), The Dream Book (Syracuse University Press, 2000), The Dream Book (Schocken Books, 2000), Poets in the Houses (Helicon Nine Editions, 1997), Unsettling America (Penguin, 1994)

Avocet: A Journal of Nature Poems, Birmingham Poetry Review, Cape Rock, Coal City Review, Downgo Sun, Flint Hills Review, I-70 Review, Kansas City Voices, Karamu, Laurel Review, Little Balkans Review, Mid-American Review, Midwest Quarterly, Nebraska Review, New Letters, Rockhurst Review, Stone Highway Review, The Medulla Review, The Orange Room Review, The Same, Thorny Locust, Voices in Italian Americana, Wild Goose Poetry Review, Wind