Mary Biddinger is the author of numerous books with Black Lawrence Press including Partial Genius: Prose Poems (2019), Department of Elegy (2022), and her debut work of fiction, The Girl with the Black Lipstick (2025). She has received awards and fellowships from the Cleveland Arts Prize, Ohio Arts Council, and National Endowment for the Arts. Biddinger teaches creative writing at the University of Akron and in the NEOMFA program, and serves as poetry editor for the University of Akron Press.