Mary Szybist
Morgan S. Odell Professor of Humanities
Mary Szybist is Associate Professor of English at Lewis & Clark College. She 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, and the Witter Bynner Foundation in conjunction with the Library of Congress. Her work has been awarded two Pushcart Prizes and has been supported by residencies at the MacDowell Colony and the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center in Bellagio, Italy. Her first book Granted won the 2004 GLCA New Writers Award and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.
Mary grew up in Williamsport, Pennsylvania and attended the University of Virginia and the University of Iowa Writers Workshop. She has called Portland home since 2004.
Specialty
Poetry WritingAcademic Credentials
MFA 1996 University of Iowa, MT 1994. BA 1992 University of Virginia
Teaching
Fall 2024
Returning Spring 2025 Semester.
Location: Miller Hall
English is located in Miller Center on the Undergraduate Campus.
MSC: 58
email english@lclark.edu
voice 503-768-7405
fax 503-768-7418
Chair Kristin Fujie
Administrative Coordinator Amy Baskin
English
Lewis & Clark
615 S. Palatine Hill Road
Portland OR 97219