Mary Biddinger is the author of four collections of poetry: Prairie Fever (Steel Toe Books, 2007), the chapbook Saint Monica (Black Lawrence Press, 2011), O Holy Insurgency (Black Lawrence Press, 2012), and A Sunny Place with Adequate Water (Black Lawrence Press, 2014). She also co-edited The Monkey and the Wrench: Essays into Contemporary Poetics (U Akron Press, 2011). Biddinger has received two Individual Excellence Awards in poetry from the Ohio Arts Council, and her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in numerous magazines, including Barrelhouse, Bat City Review, Blackbird, Gulf Coast, The Iowa Review, Pleiades, Ploughshares, and Redivider. She edits Barn Owl Review, the Akron Series in Poetry, and the Akron Series in Contemporary Poetics, and teaches poetry writing and literature at The University of Akron.