Mary Ruefle

Mary Ruefle is the author of many books, including The Book, Dunce, which was a finalist for the 2020 Pulitzer Prize, My Private Property, Trances of the Blast, Madness, Rack, and Honey, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism, and Selected Poems, winner of the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America. She is the recipient of numerous honours, including the Robert Creeley Award, an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Guggenheim fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship and a Whiting Award. She lives in Bennington, Vermont, where she was poet laureate from 2019–2024.