Mary Ruefle

Mary Ruefle (b 1952, USA) is a poet and essayist, whose career in writing spans close to four decades.

Among her many books are Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures (2012), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism. In 2010, her Selected Poems received the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America. Her most recent collection, published in 2019, is Dunce.

She has worked across multiple genres, and her publications include a comic book, Go Home and Go to Bed! (2007), She is also an erasure artist, and her treatments of nineteenth-century texts have been exhibited in numerous museums and galleries. She has been the recipient of an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Guggenheim fellowship, and a Whiting Award, among several other prestigious honours. She lives in Bennington, Vermont.