Mara Scrupe

Mara Adamitz Scrupe is a poet, visual artist and educator. She has occupied the Alan F. Rothschild Distinguished Chair in Fine Art, Columbus State University, and the Barbara L. Bishop Endowed Chair in Art, Longwood University. She has received the NEA/CEC ArtsLink Fellowship, the District of Columbia Individual Fellowship, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Professional Fellowship and the Virginia Artist Fellowship. She is a fellow of the MacDowell Colony and the Tyrone Guthrie Centre, the Irish Museum of Modern Art Residency Programme, and USF Verftet-AiR/Bergen, Norway. Scrupe is the author of four poetry collections, BEAST, (2014 Stevens Prize) Sky Pilot (Finishing Line Press, 2012), Magnalia, (2018 Eyewear Chapbook Prize) and a daughter’s aubade/ sailing out from Sognefjord(Fledge Prize, Middle Creek Press, 2018). She has won or been shortlisted for the Fish Prize (Ireland), BigCi Environmental Writing Fellowship (Australia), Aesthetica Creative Writing Award (UK), Erbacce Prize (UK), The Plough Prize (UK), University of Canberra Vice-Chancellor’s Award (Australia), and the National Poetry Society Competition (UK), among many others.