Mary teaches literature and creative writing courses, with a focus on Modern, contemporary, and world poetry. Her MFA course offerings include poetry workshops and craft and theory courses such as Poetry of the Body, First Books of Poetry, and Poetry of the Unexpected. Mary is the author of Prairie Fever (Steel Toe Books, 2007) and the chapbook Saint Monica (forthcoming from Black Lawrence Press in 2011), as well as the Editor of the Akron Series in Poetry and the co-editor of the Akron Series in Contemporary Poetics. She also serves on the Open Competition Editorial Committee for the Cleveland State University Poetry Center. In 2007 she founded the independent literary magazine Barn Owl Review, which released its third issue in the spring of 2010. Her work has recently appeared or is forthcoming in Copper Nickel, Gulf Coast, The Laurel Review, Memorious, Ninth Letter, North American Review, Passages North, Third Coast, and many other journals, and her poem "Population: 41,685," originally published in Memorious, is featured in the Dzanc Books Best of the Web 2010. Mary has been the recipient of two Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Awards in Creative Writing for her poetry: one in 2010, and one in 2007. She lives in West Akron with her family and her overgrown garden. Click here to visit Mary Biddinger's Wikipedia entry.
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Mary Biddinger was born in Fremont, California, in 1974. She grew up in Illinois and Michigan, and attended the University of Michigan (BA in English and Creative Writing), Bowling Green State University (MFA in poetry), and the University of Illinois at Chicago (Ph.D. in English, Program for Writers). She is currently an Associate Professor of English at the