Mary Ruefle
Mary Ruefle is the author of ten books of poetry, most recently Indeed I Was Pleased With the World (Carnegie Mellon, 2007). Her poems and prose appear in several anthologies, including Best American Poetry, Great American Prose Poems, and The Next American Essay. Her one-of-a-kind erasure books have been exhibited in galleries and museums. Of these, A Little White Shadow was published by Wave Books in 2006. She has been awarded many honors, including an NEA, a Whiting Writer’s Award, and a Guggenheim.
She teaches in the MFA Writing Program at Vermont College and lives in southern Vermont.
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