Mary Ruefle is the author of many books, including her most recent book Dunce (Wave Books, 2019) which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the LA Times Book Prize, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her other titles include My Private Property (Wave Books, 2016), Trances of the Blast (Wave Books, 2013), Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures (Wave Books, 2012), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism, and Selected Poems (Wave Books, 2010), winner of the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America. She has also published a comic book, Go Home and Go to Bed! (Pilot Books/Orange Table Comics, 2007), and is an artist, whose treatments of nineteenth century texts have been exhibited in museums and galleries and published in A Little White Shadow (Wave Books, 2006). Ruefle is the recipient of numerous honors, including the Robert Creeley Award, an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Guggenheim fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, and a Whiting Award. She lives in Bennington, Vermont.

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The Photograph

Pixie

The Wrapped Book

Nettles

The Bark

Nope

We Need To Talk About Ice Cream

The Candy

House Hunting

A Lesson In History

My Life As A Scholar

The Cashew

My Memory of A Story by Lydia Davis

I Read Years Ago And Never Forgot

The Stagehand

The Trees

What Happens When You Die

The Cloud Beaters

The Translator

Golden Crumbs

Love Story

The Wind

The Color

The Perk

The Heart, What Is It?

I Dream Of Jung

Lucky Dragon

My Dying Friend

Dear Friends

Letter To Elizabeth Bishop

The Gables

Affordable Vacation

An American Haiku

Teeth Of Noon

The Effusive

The Novel

The Book

Chilly Observation

The Plum And The Devil