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Mary Biddinger

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Mary Biddinger is the author of the poetry collections Prairie Fever (Steel Toe Books, 2007), Saint Monica (Black Lawrence Press, 2011), and O Holy Insurgency (Black Lawrence Press, 2011), and co-editor of The Monkey and the Wrench: Essays into Contemporary Poetics (University of Akron Press, 2011). Her poetry has recently appeared in Barrelhouse, Bat City Review, Blackbird, Devil's Lake, Forklift, Ohio, Gulf Coast, H_NGM_N, Pleiades, Redivider, and South Dakota Review, and many others. She is the editor of the Akron Series in Poetry, co-editor-in-chief of Barn Owl Review, and an Associate Professor of English at the University of Akron.

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May rolls in with a bit of hope and a sense of relief on the horizon. I just finished final edits on A Sunny Place with Adequate Water. I made it through another semester (well, almost there, at least). I can finally leave my pansies outside overnight (fingers crossed). Read more of this blog post »

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	Prairie Fever 4.38 of 5 stars 4.38 avg rating — 69 ratings — published 2007	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Saint Monica 4.81 of 5 stars 4.81 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 2011	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Monkey and the Wrench: Essays into Contemporary Poetics by Mary Biddinger (Goodreads Author) (Editor), John Gallaher (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 4.56 of 5 stars 4.56 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	O Holy Insurgency 4.89 of 5 stars 4.89 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2012	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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