Mary Biddinger is the author of the poetry collections Prairie Fever (Steel Toe Books, 2007), 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 is also co-editor of The Monkey and the Wrench: Essays into Contemporary Poetics (U Akron Press, 2011). Her poems have recently appeared or are forthcoming in Barrelhouse, Bat City Review, Blackbird, Devil’s Lake, Forklift, Ohio, Gulf Coast, H_NGM_N, Pleiades, Redivider, and South Dakota Review, among others. She teaches literature and poetry writing at The University of Akron, where she directs the NEOMFA program and edits Barn Owl Review, the Akron Series in Poetry, and the Akron Series in Contemporary Poetics.