Description
Poet and essayist Mary Quade’s collection Guide to Native Beasts won the 2003 Cleveland State University Poetry Center First Book Prize. Her work has been awarded an Oregon Literary Fellowship and three Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Awards. Her poems appear in anthologies, including On the Wing: American Poems of Air and Space Flight (University of Iowa); New Voices: Contemporary Poetry from the United States (Irish Pages); and New Poetry from the Midwest 2014 (New American Press). She is an associate professor of English at Hiram College in Ohio, where she teaches creative writing.