Mary Ruefle
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Mary Ruefle is an American poet and essayist.
[edit] Career
Ruefle has published nine books of poetry: A Little White Shadow (2006), Tristimania (2004), Among the Musk Ox People (2002), Apparition Hill (2002), Post Meridian(2000), Cold Pluto (1996), The Adamant (1989, winner of the 1988 Iowa Poetry Prize), Life Without Speaking (1987), and Memling's Veil (1982). She has been widely published in literary journals and has received a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, a Whiting Writer's Award, a Guggenheim fellowship, and an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
[edit] Life
The daughter of a military officer, Ruefle was born outside Pittsburgh in 1952, but spent her early life traveling around the U.S. and Europe. She graduated from Bennington College in 1974 with a degree in literature.
Ruefle currently lives in New England. She teaches in the MFA in Writing program at Vermont College and is visiting faculty with the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop.
