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Mary Biddinger

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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, is forthcoming from 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 has been the recipient of Individual Excellence Awards from the Ohio Arts Council, a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, and the 2019 Mid-Career Cleveland Arts Prize in literature. She teaches literature and creative writing at the University of Akron and in the NEOMFA program.

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New prose poem + July launch gratitude

It’s always a scary little thrill when a poem from a new project drops, so imagine my scare + thrill when Pithead Chapel (one of my favorite journals) published “Everyone Bowed Their Head and Prayed for God’s Blessing” in their latest issue (vol. 14, issue 8, August 2025). This prose poem is from my manuscript in progress, Latchkey. Thanks for taking a look!

Many thanks, too, to CLMP for including

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	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
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	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
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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