Mary Ruefle

Mary Ruefle is the author of many books, including, The Book (2023); a Dunce (2019), which was a finalist for the 2020 Pulitzer Prize, longlisted for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics’ Circle Award, as well as a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize; My Private Property (2016); Trances of the Blast (2013); Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures (2012), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism; and Selected Poems (2010), winner of the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America, all from Wave Books. She has also published a comic book, Go Home and Go to Bed! (Pilot Books/Orange Table Comics, 2007), and is an erasure artist, whose treatments of nineteenth century texts have been exhibited in museums and galleries and published in A Little White Shadow (2006). Ruefle's many honors include 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.