Mary Catherine Harper is a 2018 Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award winner and OAC poet-in-residence at the Fine Arts Work Center of Cape Cod for the summer of 2019. She has made her home at the confluence of the Auglaize and Maumee rivers in Ohio, where she co-organizes the yearly SwampFire Retreat for artists and writers at 4 Corners Gallery in Angola, Indiana. A two-time winner of the 2018 Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Prize, her poetry has appeared in numerous journals. Her Some Gods Don’t Need Saints chapbook was published in 2016, and The Found Object Imagines a Life was published by Cornerstone Press in September 2022.
