Mary Ruefle

Mary Ruefle (born 1952) is an American poet, essayist, and professor. She has published eleven collections of poetry, most recently, Trances of the Blast (Wave Books, 2013). Ruefle's debut collection of prose, The Most Of It, appeared in 2008 and her collected lectures, Madness, Rack, and Honey, was published in August 2012, both published by Wave Books.

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• 28 short lectures mary ruefle woodberry poetry room
• Lunch poems mary ruefle
• Awards and honors
• Published works
• References

She has been widely published in magazines and journals including The American Poetry Review Verse Daily, The Believer, Harper's Magazine, and The Kenyon Review, and in such anthologies as Best American Poetry, Great American Prose Poems (2003), American Alphabets: 25 Contemporary Poets (2006), and The Next American Essay (2002).

The daughter of a military officer, Ruefle was born in McKeesport, Pennsylvania in 1952, but spent her early years traveling around the U.S. and Europe. She graduated from Bennington College in 1974 with a degree in Literature. She currently teaches at the Vermont College of Fine Arts and is a visiting professor at the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop.