Mary Ardery
Poetry
& a bit of photography & prose
PUBLICATIONS
SELECTED ONLINE
Cider Press Review: "When I Saw Wings" (forthcoming)
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"
Boudin: "Trying to Make the 2.5-Hour Drive to the Trailhead Before Rain" (nonfiction)
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"
NEWS
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
APRIL 2023
Mary is a semifinalist for the 2023 92Y Discovery Poetry Contest
MARCH 2023
Mary's manuscript is a three-time finalist for the Wheelbarrow Books Poetry Prize with MSU Press
SEPTEMBER 2022
Mary is a featured reader with An Inconvenient Hour, a reading series in Chicago, IL
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AUGUST 2022
Three of Mary's poems are included in the INverse Poetry Archive
JUNE 2022
Mary's manuscript is a finalist for The Hudson Prize with Black Lawrence Press
Mary's manuscript is a two-time finalist for the Wheelbarrow Books Poetry Prize (Emerging) with MSU Press
MARCH 2022
Mary's manuscript is a semifinalist for the 2022 Perugia Press Prize
FEBRUARY 2022
Mary is Runner-Up for the 2021 Joe Bolton Poetry Award with Twyckenham Notes
ABOUT
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, directed the 2019 Little Grassy Literary Festival, and served as an Assistant Editor for Crab Orchard Review. Other 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 teaches at Purdue University and lives in West Lafayette with her husband, son, and two dogs named Daisy and Bug.
