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| Born | May 14, 1974 Fremont, California |
| Occupation | Writer, Academic |
| Nationality | American |
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Mary Biddinger (born May 14, 1974, in Fremont, California) is an American writer and academic.
Biography
[edit]Mary Biddinger received a B.A. in English from the University of Michigan. She holds an MFA in Poetry from Bowling Green State University and a Ph.D. in English from the Program for Writers at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Biddinger is the author of numerous books, most recently the novella-in-flash The Girl with the Black Lipstick (2025),[1] and the poetry collection Department of Elegy (2022),[2] both with Black Lawrence Press. Biddinger is the recipient of a 2015 National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship in Poetry and the 2019 Mid-Career Cleveland Arts Prize for Literature.
Biddinger is a professor in the Department of English[3] at the University of Akron, and has served as Director of the NEOMFA: Northeast Ohio Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program. She teaches courses in creative writing and literature.
Awards
[edit]- Mid-Career Cleveland Arts Prize for Literature (2019)[4]
- National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship in Poetry (2015)[5]
- Buchtel College of Arts and Sciences Service Award (2008)[6]
- Three Ohio Arts Council Individual Creativity Excellence Awards (2007, 2010, 2018)[7]
- Illinois Arts Council Literary Award (2005)
Works
[edit]- The Girl with the Black Lipstick, 2025, Black Lawrence Press
- A Mollusk Without a Shell: Essays on Self-Care for Writers (with Julie Brooks Barbour), 2024, University of Akron Press
- Department of Elegy, 2022, Black Lawrence Press
- Partial Genius, 2019, Black Lawrence Press
- Small Enterprise, 2015, Black Lawrence Press
- A Sunny Place with Adequate Water, 2014, Black Lawrence Press
- O Holy Insurgency, 2013, Black Lawrence Press
- Prairie Fever, 2007, Steel Toe Books
References
[edit]- ↑ "The Girl with the Black Lipstick". July 8, 2025.
- ↑ "Department of Elegy". January 7, 2022.
- ↑ Faculty Biography uakron.edu
- ↑ "Mary Biddinger - The Cleveland Arts Prize". arts.gov.
- ↑ "Fall 2014 Literature Fellowships" (PDF). arts.gov.
- ↑ "University of Akron" (PDF). www.uakron.edu. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 27, 2011.
- ↑ "Akron-area artists receive Ohio Arts Council Grants". beaconjournal.com.
External links
[edit]- Mary Biddinger's Website
- Biddinger's profile at the NEOMFA Website
- Biddinger's profile at Black Lawrence Press
- Biddinger's profile at Poets & Writers
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- 1974 births
- Living people
- People from Fremont, California
- Poets from California
- Bowling Green State University alumni
- Cleveland State University people
- University of Akron faculty
- University of Illinois Chicago alumni
- University of Michigan College of Literature, Science, and the Arts alumni
- 21st-century American poets
- American women academics
- American magazine founders
- 21st-century American women poets