Author's Bio and Photos
 by Mary Biddinger

Mary Biddinger was born in the San Francisco area in 1974, and has studied creative writing at the University of Michigan and Bowling Green State University (MFA 1998). Currently she is a Doctoral Candidate at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where she teaches literature and creative writing. Biddinger also serves as poet-in-residence at Galileo Scholastic Academy, where she works with fourth, seventh, and eighth grade writers.

Biddinger's work has recently appeared in ACM, Indiana Review, Ploughshares, RHINO, Whiskey Island Magazine, and Wisconsin Review, and is forthcoming in The Journal, Plainsongs, and Puerto del Sol. She lives on Chicago's lakeshore with her husband, fiction writer Greg Thompson, and is completing her first book of poetry.
Mary Biddinger, circa 1976, with parents Scott and Patricia. This "burned log cabin, chimney still standing," on her grandparents' property in Colorado, along with an old bear skin rug, helped inspire the poem "Two."