Mary Ruefle is a poet, prose writer, and erasure artist whose most recent book is My Private Property (Wave Books, 2016). Her collected lectures, Madness, Rack, And Honey, was a finalist for the National Book Crtics Circle Award, and her Selected Poems won the Williams Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America. Her work appears regularly in magazines and anthologies, including Granta, Harpers, and Best American Poetry.
At MacDowell in 2018, she completed a new book of poems and completed an erasure text of an 18th century book, and continued work on an extended prose project. Her time at MacDowell was crucial to each of these endeavors. She also read Middlemarch for the first time!
