Mary Ardery was born and raised in Bloomington, IN. Her work appears in Beloit Poetry Journal, Best New Poets 2021, Prairie Schooner, Poet Lore, Fairy Tale Review, Missouri Review’s “Poem of the Week,” and elsewhere. She holds an MFA from Southern Illinois University-Carbondale, where she won an Academy of American Poets Prize. The recipient of a Lifelong Arts fellowship from the Indiana Arts Commission, she currently lives in West Lafayette and teaches at Purdue University. Visit her at maryardery.com.
