Maryfrances Wagner's books include Salvatore's Daughter, Light Subtracts Itself, Red Silk (Thorpe Menn Book Award for Literary Excellence), Dioramas, Pouf, The Silence of Red Glass, and The Immigrants' New Camera. Poems have appeared in New Letters, Midwest Quarterly, Laurel Review, Rattle, River Styx, Main Street Rag, Green Mountains Review, Tar River Review, Voices in Italian Americana, Unsettling America: An Anthology of Contemporary Multicultural Poetry (Penguin Books), Literature Across Cultures (Pearson/Longman), Bearing Witness, The Dream Book, An Anthology of Writings by Italian American Women (American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation), etc. She co-edits I-70 Review and served as individual artist honoree for the Missouri Arts Awards, the state's highest honor in the arts. She serves as Missouri's poet laureate for 2021-2023.