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Mary Ardery

Poetry
& a bit of photography & prose

Books

PUBLICATIONS

SELECTED ONLINE

Crab Orchard Review: "Long Distance"

The Swannanoa Review: "Deeper into the Backcountry"

Cider Press Review: "When I Saw Wings"

Passages North: "Outcomes"

The Indianapolis Review: Two Poems

The Hopper: "The Darkest Time of the Year"

Twyckenham Notes: Four Poems

New Ohio Review Online: "Compassion Fatigue"

EcoTheo: "Afterward"

Moist Poetry Journal: "Song of the River in Winter"

Bear Review: "Portrait of Wilderness Rehab as The Things They Carried"

Sonora Review: "They're Not Lying When They Tell You You'll Dream of the Dead II"

Baltimore Review: "Kawana Campsite"

Porter House Review: "Missing"

SWWIM: "Portrait of Wilderness Rehab as Terrarium"

Cold Mountain Review: Two Poems

Cincinnati Review's "miCRo" series: "Assistant Guide" (autofiction)

Missouri Review's "Poem of the Week": "Is This What People Mean?"

Miracle Monocle: Three Poems

The Indianapolis Review: Featured Artist (photography)

Poets.org: "Fear of Drowning"

Two Peach: "Learning of Your Overdose"

Parks & Points: "Hiking Uphill" (nonfiction)

 

SELECTED PRINT

Beloit Poetry Journal: Two Poems

River Styx: "Little Lost Cove"

Salamander: "Moving to a Tourist Town"

Poet Lore: "Snowed in at Base Camp on Valentine's Day"

Best New Poets 2021: "Fourth-Grade Soundtrack" 

Wayfinding anthology: Two Poems

december: "Portrait of My Grandfather on Rewind"

FOLIO: "They're Not Lying When They Tell You You'll Dream of the Dead III"

The Sun: "Books: Rare, Medium, Well Done" (photography)

Salt Hill: "Portrait of Wilderness Rehab with Omen"

Prairie Schooner: "What Could Have Been"

Fairy Tale Review: "When I Bring You Home"

RHINO: "They're Not Lying When They Tell You You'll Dream of the Dead"

In The Press

NEWS

OCTOBER 2024

Mary's manuscript is a two-time finalist for the Autumn House Press Poetry Prize

AUGUST 2024

Mary's manuscript is a finalist for the 2024 reading period with River River Books 

The Indianapolis Star publishes Mary's  op-ed about the cost of child care

JULY 2024

Mary receives a Phi Beta Kappa Love of Learning Grant to attend the Midwest Writers Workshop

DIAGRAM publishes Mary's review of Jessica Johnson's Mettlework (Acre Books, 2024)

MAY 2024

Mary is a virtual guest for a Living Writers class at The Ellis School

APRIL 2024

Mary reads at Dream Palace Books to celebrate the book launch of Sam Fain's Are You There

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MARCH 2024

Mary's manuscript is a finalist for the 2024 Rising Writer Prize in Poetry with Autumn House Press 

FEBRUARY 2024

Mary's manuscript is a finalist for the 2023 Cowles Poetry Prize with Southeast Missouri State University Press

Mary's manuscript is a four-time finalist for the Wheelbarrow Books Poetry Prize with MSU Press

OCTOBER 2023

Mary's manuscript is a finalist for the 2023 Autumn House Press Poetry Prize

 

Mary's manuscript is a semifinalist for the 2023 Richard Snyder Prize with Ashland Poetry Press

AUGUST 2023

Mary's manuscript is a finalist for the 2023 Raz-Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry with University of Nebraska Press

JUNE 2023

Mary's manuscript is a two-time finalist for The Hudson Prize with Black Lawrence Press

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ABOUT

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Mary Ardery was born and raised in Bloomington, Indiana. She earned degrees from DePauw University (B.A.) and Southern Illinois University-Carbondale (M.F.A.), where she won an Academy of American Poets Prize. Her work experience includes camp counseling, catering, painting dorm rooms, harvesting vineyards, leading therapeutic wilderness expeditions, teaching college-level creative writing and composition, and serving patrons at a public library. The recipient of a Lifelong Arts fellowship from the Indiana Arts Commission, Mary currently lives, works, and writes in West Lafayette, Indiana with her husband, son, and Boston Terrier named Bug.

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