Mary Biddinger’s newest poetry collection is Department of Elegy (Black Lawrence Press, 2022). Her poems have recently been published in Bennington Review, Crazyhorse, Couplet Poetry, Pithead Chapel, and Thrush Poetry Journal, among others. Flash fiction has appeared in Always Crashing, DIAGRAM, Gone Lawn, On the Seawall, and West Trestle Review. She teaches at the University of Akron and in the NEOMFA program, and edits the Akron Series in Poetry for the University of Akron Press.

Website: marybiddinger.com

Twitter Username: @marybid

Employment

• Professor of English at The University of Akron (August 2005 - )
• Poetry Editor at University of Akron Press (July 2008 - )

Degrees

• Doctoral Degree in English: Program for Writers from University of Illinois Chicago (May 2003)
• Master of Fine Arts in Poetry from Bowling Green State University (July 1998)
• Bachelor of Arts in English & Creative Writing from University of Michigan (May 1996)

Genres of Interest

Fiction, Creative nonfiction, Poetry