The Life of Mary Cromer
Available April 2026
Inspired by a real woman and her poetry, The Life of Mary Cromer
is a quiet, luminous novel about endurance, attention,
and the dignity of an ordinary life…
About Virginia Weir
Virginia grew up in the Southwest, completed an undergraduate degree at San Francisco State University, and received an MFA in fiction from Warren Wilson College. She has worked as a typesetter, database administrator, grant writer, and vice president of development for a family service agency, writing all the while.
Her poetry and fiction have been published in The Best of Intro, NER/BLQ, the Marlboro Review, and Oneing, among others.
She attended the Living School for Action and Contemplation in Albuquerque, NM, and is a certified spiritual director affiliated with the Murphy Center for Ignatian Spirituality at Fairfield University. She has two grown children and lives with her husband John in Fairfield, Connecticut.
Other Books
Stay a Friend as Long as You Can
A Memoir
“A poignant remembrance, deeply meditative and poetically composed.” —Kirkus Reviews
He was my philosophy professor in college. I was 17; he was 42. I didn’t know he had a mental illness; I only knew he loved me. This is the story of our lifelong friendship.
The Two Elizabeths
A Novella
When she hired “another Elizabeth” as her assistant in the university’s Grants Office, Elizabeth Wright didn’t expect to find herself wanting a friendship so badly.
Rite of Spring
A Novel
San Francisco, 1987. Gerald Poulin, first bassoonist in the San Francisco Symphony, has taken on an unusual young woman as a student. If it comes to it, will she be able to take his place in the Symphony’s performance of The Rite of Spring?
For readers who prefer other-than-Amazon, the books can be ordered
through independent bookstores.
Musings
On Not Passing Through the Narrow Gate
…So what did I want? I realized what I wanted most was to have the books in hand. And so, over these last many most-strange Pandemic Months, I put them together.
© 2026 Virginia Weir