Mary Ruefle

Mary Ruefle (born 1952) is an American

She has been widely published in magazines and journals including The American Poetry Review,[4] Verse Daily,^[5] The Believer,^[6] Harper's Magazine,^[7] and The Kenyon Review,^[8] and in such anthologies as Best American Poetry, Great American Prose Poems (2003), American Alphabets: 25 Contemporary Poets (2006), and The Next American Essay (2002).^[9]

The daughter of a military officer, Ruefle was born in McKeesport, Pennsylvania, in 1952,^[10] but spent her early years traveling around the U.S. and Europe. She graduated from Bennington College^[9] in 1974 with a degree in literature. She teaches at the Vermont College of Fine Arts.^[9] In 2011, she served as the Bedell Distinguished Visiting Professor^[11] at the University of Iowa's Nonfiction Writing Program. In 2019, she was named poet laureate of the state of Vermont.^[12]

Awards and honors

• 1984 National Endowment for the Arts fellowship.^[9]
• 1995 Whiting Award^[13]
• 1998 Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters^[9]
• 1999
  Frost Place residency^[14]
• 2002 Guggenheim fellowship in poetry[15]
• 2007 Lannan Foundation residency^[16]
• 2011 William Carlos Williams Award for Selected Poems^[9]
• 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award finalist in Criticism for Madness, Rack, and Honey^[17]
• 2014 Robert Creeley Award^[18]

Published works

Full-length poetry collections

• Dunce (Wave Books, 2019)
• From Here to Eternity. Horton Tank Graphics. 2015.
• An Incarnation of the Now. See Double Press. 2015.
• Happy Birthday!. Wave Books. 2013.
• Trances of the Blast (Wave Books, 2013)
• Selected Poems, 2010 (William Carlos Williams Award, 2011)
• Go home and go to bed! : a comic. Pilot Books. 2007.
• Indeed I Was Pleased with the World (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2007)
• A Little White Shadow (Wave Books, 2006)
• Tristimania (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2004)
• Apparition Hill (CavanKerry Press, 2002)
• Among the Musk Ox People (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2002)
• Post Meridian (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1999)
• Cold Pluto (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1996; Classic Contemporary version 2001)
• The Adamant (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1989)
• Life Without Speaking (University of Alabama Press, 1987)
• Memling's Veil (University of Alabama Press, 1982)

Prose collections

• The Book (Wave Books, 2023)
• My Private Property (Wave Books, 2016)
• The Most of It (Wave Books, 2008)

Non-fiction

• Madness, Rack, and Honey Collected Lectures (Wave Books, 2012)

Essays

• "Pause". Granta (131: The Map is Not the Territory). Spring 2015. (Online Edition Only)

• An Incarnation of the Now (See Double Press, 2015)

References