Mary Biddinger is the author of Prairie Fever (Steel Toe Books, 2007). Her poetry has recently appeared or is forthcoming in 32 Poems, The Collagist, Copper Nickel, diode, Gulf Coast, The Laurel Review, North American Review, Passages North, Third Coast, and many other journals. She is the editor of the Akron Series in Poetry, co-editor-in-chief of Barn Owl Review, and director of the NEOMFA: Northeast Ohio Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing. She teaches literature and creative writing at The University of Akron. Her chapbook, Saint Monica, was a finalist for the Black River Chapbook Competition and is forthcoming from Black Lawrence Press.

Other poems by Mary Biddinger in Verse Daily:
July 13, 2010:   "Confluence" "In place of everything that came..."
April 19, 2007:   "Drift" " What you did that day..."

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About Saint Monica:

"Equally familiar and strange in her wonderment, Mary Biddinger's Saint Monica rises above the water towers and smokestacks of the Midwest, a saint transfigured into a modern girl with a persistent craving for muscle cars and tattooed love boys. Yes the Saint Monica does more than want: her yearnings are feral, carnal, and unflinchingly honest. She does not ask for God to take her walls away so much as figure out how to kick them down herself. The result: her escape route is illuminated by a slender and elegant beam of longing and melancholy to poems that make clear the clandestine nature of what we desire most."
—Steve Kistulentz

"Biddinger crisply narrates these memorable tales that entwine horror and sensual discovery, using deft rhythms, head-snapping line breaks, and highly original imagery."
—Rachel Dacus