Mary Ardery
Poetry
& a bit of photography & prose
PUBLICATIONS
SELECTED ONLINE
The Swannanoa Review: "Deeper into the Backcountry" (forthcoming)
Cider Press Review: "When I Saw Wings"
Passages North: "Outcomes"
The Indianapolis Review: Two Poems
The Hopper: "The Darkest Time of the Year"
Twyckenham Notes: Four Poems
New Ohio Review Online: "Compassion Fatigue"
EcoTheo: "Afterward"
Moist Poetry Journal: "Song of the River in Winter"
Bear Review: "Portrait of Wilderness Rehab as The Things They Carried"
Sonora Review: "They're Not Lying When They Tell You You'll Dream of the Dead II"
Baltimore Review: "Kawana Campsite"
Porter House Review: "Missing"
SWWIM: "Portrait of Wilderness Rehab as Terrarium"
Cold Mountain Review: Two Poems
Cincinnati Review's "miCRo" series: "Assistant Guide" (autofiction)
Missouri Review's "Poem of the Week": "Is This What People Mean?"
Miracle Monocle: Three Poems
The Indianapolis Review: Featured Artist (photography)
Poets.org: "Fear of Drowning"
Two Peach: "Learning of Your Overdose"
Parks & Points: "Hiking Uphill" (nonfiction)
SELECTED PRINT
Beloit Poetry Journal: Two Poems
River Styx: "Little Lost Cove"
Salamander: "Moving to a Tourist Town"
Poet Lore: "Snowed in at Base Camp on Valentine's Day"
Best New Poets 2021: "Fourth-Grade Soundtrack"
Wayfinding anthology: Two Poems
december: "Portrait of My Grandfather on Rewind"
FOLIO: "They're Not Lying When They Tell You You'll Dream of the Dead III"
The Sun: "Books: Rare, Medium, Well Done" (photography)
Salt Hill: "Portrait of Wilderness Rehab with Omen"
Prairie Schooner: "What Could Have Been"
Fairy Tale Review: "When I Bring You Home"
RHINO: "They're Not Lying When They Tell You You'll Dream of the Dead"
NEWS
MARCH 2024
Mary's manuscript is a finalist for the 2024 Rising Writer Prize in Poetry with Autumn House Press
FEBRUARY 2024
Mary's manuscript is a finalist for the 2023 Cowles Poetry Prize with Southeast Missouri State University Press
Mary's manuscript is a four-time finalist for the Wheelbarrow Books Poetry Prize with MSU Press
OCTOBER 2023
Mary's manuscript is a finalist for the 2023 Autumn House Press Poetry Prize
Mary's manuscript is a semifinalist for the 2023 Richard Snyder Prize with Ashland Poetry Press
AUGUST 2023
Mary's manuscript is a finalist for the 2023 Raz-Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry with University of Nebraska Press
JUNE 2023
Mary's manuscript is a two-time finalist for The Hudson Prize with Black Lawrence Press
APRIL 2023
Mary is a semifinalist for the 2023 92Y Discovery Poetry Contest
MARCH 2023
Mary's manuscript is a three-time finalist for the Wheelbarrow Books Poetry Prize with MSU Press
SEPTEMBER 2022
Mary is a featured reader with An Inconvenient Hour, a reading series in Chicago, IL
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AUGUST 2022
Three of Mary's poems are included in the INverse Poetry Archive
ABOUT
Mary Ardery was born and raised in Bloomington, Indiana. She earned degrees from DePauw University (B.A.) and Southern Illinois University-Carbondale (M.F.A.), where she won an Academy of American Poets Prize, directed the 2019 Little Grassy Literary Festival, and served as an Assistant Editor for Crab Orchard Review. Other work experience includes camp counseling, catering, painting dorm rooms, harvesting vineyards, leading therapeutic wilderness expeditions, teaching college-level creative writing and composition, and serving patrons at a public library. The recipient of a Lifelong Arts fellowship from the Indiana Arts Commission, Mary currently lives and works in West Lafayette, Indiana with her husband, son, and Boston Terrier named Bug.
