Mary Biddinger

Mary Biddinger is the author of two collections of poetry, O Holy Insurgency (forthcoming from Black Lawrence Press) and Prairie Fever (Steel Toe Books, 2007). She is also the author of a chapbook, Saint Monica (Black Lawrence Press, 2011). Biddinger is the co-editor of The Monkey and the Wrench: Essays into Contemporary Poetics (University of Akron Press, 2011). Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Barrelhouse ; Bat City Review ; Forklift, Ohio ; iO ; Redivider ; and South Dakota Review . Biddinger is an associate professor at The University of Akron, where she directs the Northeast Ohio Masters of Fine Arts program in creative writing. She is one of the editors-in-chief of Barn Owl Review , the editor of the Akron Series in Poetry, and the co-editor of the Akron Series in Contemporary Poetics. Photo by Eric Morris

Photo by Eric Morris