[close] 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 writing from The University of Michigan, Bowling Green State University, and The University of Illinois at Chicago. She is currently an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Akron and NEOMFA: Northeast Ohio Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program, where she teaches workshops and craft and theory courses on a variety of topics, including poetry of the body.

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