Mary Biddinger

Mary Biddinger
Born (1974-05-14) May 14, 1974 (age 52)
Fremont, California
OccupationsWriter, Academic
Websitewww.marybiddinger.com

Mary Biddinger (born May 14, 1974, in Fremont, California) is an American writer and academic.

Biography

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), and the poetry collection Department of Elegy (2022), 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 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

Works

References

  1. ↑ "The Girl with the Black Lipstick". July 8, 2025.
  2. ↑ "Department of Elegy". January 7, 2022.
  3. ↑ Faculty Biography uakron.edu
  4. ↑ "Mary Biddinger - The Cleveland Arts Prize". arts.gov.
  5. ↑ "Fall 2014 Literature Fellowships" (PDF). arts.gov.
  6. ↑ "University of Akron" (PDF). www.uakron.edu. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 27, 2011.
  7. ↑ "Akron-area artists receive Ohio Arts Council Grants". beaconjournal.com.