Mary Biddinger
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born
May 14, 1974
gender
female
place of birth
The United States
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Poetry
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June 2007
about this author
Mary Biddinger's poems have appeared or are forthcoming in numerous journals including ACM, Crazyhorse, Harpur Palate, The Iowa Review, Ninth Letter, Notre Dame Review, Ploughshares, and Salt Hill, and her first book, PRAIRIE FEVER, is now available from Steel Toe Books. For several years she has been an Associate Editor of the literary magazine RHINO, and she is the founding editor of the new print annual BARN OWL REVIEW. Biddinger is currently at work on a series of poems that reinvent Saint Monica--patron of bad marriages, among other things--as a contemporary girl coming of age in the rust belt Midwest.
Born in Fremont, California, Biddinger grew up in Illinois and Michigan, and received degrees in English and creative writin...more
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Prairie Fever by Mary Biddinger (Goodreads author) avg rating 4.46 — 46 ratings — published 2007 |
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gave Map Of The Folded World (Paperback) by John Gallaher (Goodreads author) |
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gave Torched Verse Ends (Paperback) by Steven D. Schroeder (Goodreads author) |
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gave All the Way Home: Building a Family in a Falling-Down House (Hardcover) by David Giffels |
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"Mary Biddinger's poems are like small movies of plays Tennessee Williams never wrote because he wasn't a woman, but would have if he had been. The depth of characterization, the vivid settings and original language create a spell not easily shaken of...more " | |||
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I love her! Those books just suck me in like no others. I remember reading Kitchen in its entirety one day when I was in Toronto--I just couldn't help myself.
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