Mary Biddinger

Who is Mary Biddinger?

Mary Biddinger is an American poet, editor, and academic.

Mary Biddinger is the author of the poetry collection Prairie Fever. Her poems have appeared in numerous literary magazines, including Copper Nickel, Crazyhorse, Gulf Coast, The Iowa Review, 32 poems, Ninth Letter, North American Review, Ploughshares, Weave Magazine, and Third Coast. Her chapbook Saint Monica was published by Black Lawrence Press in May 2011, and her poem "Population: 41,685," originally published in Memorious, was featured in the Dzanc Books Best of the Web 2010. Her second full-length collection of poems, O Holy Insurgency, was published by Black Lawrence Press in 2013, and her third full-length collection of poems, A Sunny Place with Adequate Water is forthcoming in 2014, also from Black Lawrence Press.

She is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Akron, and was Director of the NEOMFA: Northeast Ohio Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program from 2009-2012. Biddinger teaches courses in poetry writing, craft and theory of poetry, and literature.