Associate Professor, University of Akron Department of English

Mary Biddinger teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in creative writing and literature. Her work has appeared nationwide in a variety of journals, including American Literary Review, Crazyhorse, The Iowa Review, The Journal, Notre Dame Review, and Ploughshares, and she is the author of Prairie Fever (Steel Toe Books, 2007) Saint Monica (Black Lawrence Press, 2011) and O Holy Insurgency ( " , 2012). She is a Founding Editor of Barn Owl Review, and the editor of the Akron Series in Poetry.

In addition to creative writing, Dr. Biddinger’s research interests include Modern and Contemporary Poetry, Urban Literature, World Literature, and Disability Studies. She serves as director of the Northeast Ohio Master of Fine Arts Program, or NEOMFA.

COURSES TAUGHT:

Introductory and Advanced Poetry Writing
Introductory Fiction Writing
MFA Poetry Workshop
Modern & Contemporary American Poetry
International Poetry
MFA Craft & Theory Seminar: Poetry of the Body
MFA Craft & Theory Seminar: First Books (Poetry)
MFA Craft & Theory Seminar: Poetry of the Unexpected
New Poetry
Women Writers

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND:

Ph.D. in English w/ Creative Dissertation, University of Illinois at Chicago

MFA in Poetry, Bowling Green State University

B.A. in English and Creative Writing, The University of Michigan