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Mary Biddinger 
Born May 14, 1974
Fremont, CaliforniaOccupation Poet, Editor, Academic Nationality American
marybiddinger.comMary Biddinger (born May 14, 1974 in Fremont, California) is an American poet, editor, and academic.
Mary Biddinger is the author of the poetry collection Prairie Fever (Steel Toe Books, 2007).[1] 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,[2] and Third Coast. Her chapbook Saint Monica was published by Black Lawrence Press[3] in May 2011, and her poem "Population: 41,685," originally published in Memorious,[4] was featured in the Dzanc Books Best of the Web 2010.[5] Her newest full-length collection of poems, O Holy Insurgency, is forthcoming from Black Lawrence Press in 2012.
She is an Associate Professor in the Department of English [6] at the University of Akron, and is Director of the NEOMFA: Northeast Ohio Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program. Biddinger teaches courses in poetry writing, craft and theory of poetry, and literature.
Biddinger is the Editor of the Akron Series in Poetry,[7] which sponsors the annual Akron Poetry Prize[8] and publishes three poetry collections every year. She is also on the Cleveland State University Poetry Center Open Book Competition editorial jury.[9] Biddinger also serves as co-editor, with John Gallaher, of the Akron Series in Contemporary Poetics at the University of Akron Press. The first volume, titled The Monkey and the Wrench: Essays into Contemporary Poetics, was published in January, 2011.
In 2007, Biddinger founded Barn Owl Review, an independent literary magazine published in Akron, Ohio.
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Education
Mary Biddinger received an Honors B.A. in English with a Creative Writing Subconcentration from the University of Michigan. She also holds an MFA in Poetry from Bowling Green State University, and a Ph.D. in English with Creative Dissertation from the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Awards
Two Ohio Arts Council Individual Creativity Excellence Awards[10]
Illinois Arts Council Literary Award (2005)[11]
Buchtel College of Arts and Sciences Service Award (2008) [12]Works
- Prairie Fever, February 2007
- Saint Monica, June 2011, Black Lawrence Press
- O Holy Insurgency, forthcoming 2012, Black Lawrence Press
References
- ^ http://www.wku.edu/~tom.hunley/steeltoebooks/prairiefever.htm
- ^ http://www.pshares.org/authors/author-detail.cfm?authorID=1981
- ^ http://www.blacklawrence.com/Biddinger.html
- ^ http://www.memorious.org/?id=233
- ^ http://www.dzancbooks.org/store/botw2010.html
- ^ http://www.uakron.edu/colleges/artsci/depts/english/bios/biddinger.php
- ^ http://www3.uakron.edu/uapress/poetry.html
- ^ http://www3.uakron.edu/uapress/poetryprize.html
- ^ http://www.csuohio.edu/poetrycenter/contest1.html
- ^ http://www.uakron.edu/about_ua/news_media/news_details.dot?newsId=11614&pageTitle=UA%20News&crumbTitle=Mary+Biddinger+Receives+Ohio+Arts+Council+Award
- ^ http://www.state.il.us/agency/Iac/news/Archive/PR-%20Literary%20Awards%20%2705.htm
- ^ http://www.uakron.edu/colleges/artsci/docs/NewsCapsulesFall2008(WebVersion).pdf
External links
Categories:- American poets
- Bowling Green State University alumni
- Cleveland State University people
- University of Akron faculty
- University of Illinois at Chicago alumni
- University of Michigan alumni
- Living people
- 1974 births
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