Mary Leader (born 1948 Pawnee, Oklahoma) is a poet, and former assistant attorney general of Oklahoma.

Life

She graduated from the University of Oklahoma in 1975, with a J.D. in 1980, from Warren Wilson College with a M.F.A. in 1991, and from Brandeis University with a Ph.D. in 2000. She taught at Warren Wilson College, Emory University, Louisiana State University, the University of Memphis, and Brandeis University. She teaches at Purdue University.[1] [2]

Awards

• 1996 National Poetry Series, for Red Signature
• 1997 The Chad Walsh Poetry Prize, by the Beloit Poetry Journal
• 2001 Iowa Poetry Prize, for The Penultimate Suitor

Works

• "For the Love of Gerald Finzi"; "IT OPENS"; "WATER", Beloit Poetry Journal
• "Girl at Sewing Machine", Emory University
• Red Signature. Graywolf Press. 1997. ISBN 978-1-55597-255-4.
• The penultimate suitor: poems. University of Iowa Press. 2001. ISBN 978-0-87745-765-7.

Anthologies

• Michael Collier, ed. (2000). "Portrait "Fritz Kreisler"". The new American poets. UPNE. ISBN 978-0-87451-964-8.

References

External links

• The Writer's Almanac
• An Interview with Mary Leader at Sycamore Review.

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