CHESTERTOWN, MD— Author, editor, and professor Mary Biddinger will come to the Rose O’Neill Literary House on Tuesday, Feb. 11 to provide insight into the world of publishing. Her talk, “Literary Publishing from the Inside Out: Advice for Publishing Your Own Work, and the Work of Others,” will take place from 4:30 to 6 p.m. in the Literary House, 407 Washington College.

Mary Biddinger is the founder and editor-in-chief of the literary magazine Barn Owl Review and co-editor of The Monkey and the Wrench: Essays into Contemporary Poetics (U Akron Press, 2011). She is assistant chair of the English department at the University of Akron, where she teaches literature, poetry writing, and literary publishing.

Biddinger received a BA in English and Creative Writing from the University of Michigan, an MFA in Poetry from Bowling Green State University, and a PhD in English from the Program for Writers at the University of Illinois in Chicago. Her publications include the poetry collections Prairie Fever (Steel Toe Books, 2007), Saint Monica (Black Lawrence Press, 2011), O Holy Insurgency (Black Lawrence Press, 2013) and  A Sunny Place with Adequate Water (Black Lawrence Press, forthcoming 2014).  

The event is hosted by the Rose O’Neill Literary House and coordinated by 2013 Literary House Summer Intern Aileen Gray ’14. 

–Kimberly Uslin ’14