Mary Sanders Shartle is one of three poets with Elaine Handley and Marilyn McCabe, who have three times won the Adirondack Center for Writing, Best Book of Poetry award. Their full length collection, Tear of the Clouds, was released in 2011 from Ra Press. Her novel, The Hermit: The Truth and Legend of Lily Martindale, will be out in spring 2014 from SUNY Press.