Mary Bruno is an American writer and editor. After earning a master's degree in aquatic ecology she worked as a staff writer, contributing editor or editorial director for a variety of print and online publications, including Newsweek and New York Woman magazines, ABCNEWS.com and Seattle Weekly. Her essays and fiction have appeared in the collections A Road of Her Own: Women's Journeys in the West (2002) and Green Time (2003). Bruno grew up in North Arlington, New Jersey. She lives on Vashon Island in Washington State.