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Mary Biddinger is a poet and flash fiction writer who lives in Akron, Ohio. Her novella-in-flash, The Girl with the Black Lipstick, was published by Black Lawrence Press in July 2025. She is co-editor, with Julie Brooks Barbour, of A Mollusk Without a Shell: Essays on Self-Care for Writers (University of Akron Press, 2024). Biddinger teaches literature and creative writing at the University of Akron and in the NEOMFA program.

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The Sweet Spot + Black Lipstick birthday

Big gratitude to Switch: A Magazine of Microfiction for publishing a new piece, “The Sweet Spot,” with wonderful company. I’m having a lot of fun writing micros right now while working on my Longer Prose Thing at the same time.

Today is also the one year birthday of The Girl with the Black Lipstick! Abundant thanks to Black Lawrence Press for their support, and to everyone who helped celebrate my

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Average rating: 4.39 · 398 ratings · 59 reviews · 16 distinct works

	Prairie Fever 4.33 avg rating — 82 ratings — published 2007	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Saint Monica 4.71 avg rating — 56 ratings — published 2011	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	O Holy Insurgency 4.38 avg rating — 45 ratings — published 2012	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Department of Elegy 4.37 avg rating — 41 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Monkey and the Wrench: Essays into Contemporary Poetics 4.17 avg rating — 42 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Partial Genius 4.52 avg rating — 31 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Sunny Place with Adequate Water 4.53 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Small Enterprise 4.62 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2015 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Girl with the Black Lipstick (Novella-in-flash) 4.13 avg rating — 8 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Czar by Mary Biddinger (Goodreads Author), Jay Robinson (Goodreads Author) 4.80 avg rating — 5 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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message 6: by Mary

Jan 08, 2016 08:57AM

Jan wrote: "Enjoyed your poem "Ordinary Citizens" on Verse Daily, Mary."

Thanks so much, Jan!

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message 5: by Jan

Jan 05, 2016 11:20AM

Enjoyed your poem "Ordinary Citizens" on Verse Daily, Mary.

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message 4: by Kelly

Jan 28, 2008 12:16PM

Thanks for the add. Pleasure to meet a fellow author.
Kelly Moran
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XXXOOO

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message 3: by Daniel (last edited Aug 25, 2016 02:09PM)

Dec 05, 2007 12:59PM

Mary, I just added your Prarie Fever to my to-read list.

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message 2: by Mary (last edited Aug 25, 2016 11:34AM)

Jul 14, 2007 01:23PM

I love her! Those books just suck me in like no others. I remember reading Kitchen in its entirety one day when I was in Toronto--I just couldn't help myself.

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Jul 13, 2007 11:07AM

It's great to find another fan of Banana Yoshimoto!

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