Mary Moore Easter is the author of a memoir The Way She Wants to Get There and four books of poetry including Free Papers, inspired by the testimony of Eliza Winston. She was the Founder and Director of Carleton College’s dance program. In 2022, Carleton College named their new studios in the Weitz Center for Creativity to honor her legacy: the Mary Easter Dance Studios. Now emerita professor, she continues in her performance and written works the overlap of movement, words and song sourced from African American culture.

She is a Pushcart Prize-nominated poet; Cave Canem Fellow; veteran dancer/choreographer and emerita professor of dance at Carleton College. Easter has been honored by Bush and McKnight fellowships and The Loft Creative Non-Fiction Award.