Mary Szybist

Mary Szybist by Joni Kabana MARY SZYBIST is most recently the author of Incarnadine, winner of the 2013 National Book Award for Poetry.  She is the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Rona Jaffe Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center, and the Witter Bynner Foundation in conjunction with the Library of Congress.  Her first book Granted was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and winner of the GLCA New Writers Award.  She lives in Portland, Oregon where she teaches at Lewis & Clark College.