Essays by David Pagel and David Scott Kastan. Introduction by Terrie Sultan. Texts by Christopher French, David Scott Kastan, David Pagel, Savannah Petrick and Terrie Sultan. Telling Stories: Reframing the Narratives, The Parrish Art Museum, 2020

Kalil, Susie, Reckoning: Anabel Livermore and Mary McCleary, Kirk Hopper Fine Arts, 2018

Smith, Mark L. and Katherine Brimberry, Flatbed Press at 25, University of Texas Press, 2016

Bunch, Robert, The Art of Found Objects: Interviews with Texas Artists, Texas A&M University Press, 2016

Wolfe, Gregory, Beauty Will Save the World: Recovering the Human in an Ideological Age, Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 2014

Willour, Clint, “It’s About Time,” Mary McCleary: A Survey, Art League of Houston, Houston, TX, 2011

Crosman, Christopher B., Celebrating the American Spirit: Masterworks from the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Hudson Hills, Manchester, VT, 2011.
Forward by Don Bacigalupi

Anspon, Catherine D., Texas Artists Today, Marquand Books, 2010

Sultan, Terrie, Damaged Romanticism: A Mirror of Modern Emotion, D.Giles, Ltd., 2008.

McCleary, Mary, “The Work of Our Hands,” It Was Good: Making Art to the Glory of God, Square Halo Books, Baltimore, 2007.

Mary McCleary: After Paradise, Square Halo Books, 2006, essays by Clint Willour and Harold Fickett.

Romaine, James. Objects of Grace: Essays and Interviews on Creativity and Faith. Baltimore: Square Halo Books, 2002.

Mary McCleary: Beginning With the Word, Constructed Narratives: 1985-2000

Poetry and Art from Crystal Bridges Museum of Art

Britt, Douglas, "Mary McCleary’s collages seduce viewers into digging deeper," Houston Chronicle, September 9, 2011.

Sprinkle, Mark “Sugaring Moths,” The BioLogos Forum, February 27, 2011

Britt, Douglas, “Mary McCleary is Looking for Unique Responses,” Houston Chronicle, December 11, 2009.

Interview with G. C. Waldrep for Doubleroom: Journal of Prose Poetry and Flash Fiction. issue #8, Summer 2009. G.C. Waldrep is a poet and editor-at-large of the Kenyon Review.