Mary Biddinger’s debut work of fiction, a novella-in-flash titled The Girl with the Black Lipstick, was released by Black Lawrence Press in 2025. She is the co-editor of two volumes of essays, The Monkey and the Wrench: Essays into Contemporary Poetics (with John Gallaher, University of Akron Press, 2011) and A Mollusk Without a Shell: Essays on Self-Care for Writers (with Julie Brooks Barbour, University of Akron Press, 2024).

Biddinger is also the author of numerous collections of poetry: Prairie Fever (Steel Toe Books, 2007), the chapbook Saint Monica (Black Lawrence Press, 2011), O Holy Insurgency (Black Lawrence Press, 2013), A Sunny Place with Adequate Water (Black Lawrence Press, 2014), Small Enterprise (Black Lawrence Press, 2015), The Czar (with Jay Robinson, Black Lawrence Press, 2016), and Partial Genius: Prose Poems, (Black Lawrence Press, 2019). Her most recent poetry collection, Department of Elegy, was published by Black Lawrence Press in January of 2022.