Mary Quade is the author of the poetry collections Local Extinctions (Gold Wake, 2016) and Guide to Native Beasts (Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 2004) and the essay collection Zoo World (The Ohio State University Press / Mad Creek Books, 2023), winner of the 2022 The Journal Non/Fiction Collection Prize. Her work has received an Oregon Literary Fellowship and five Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Awards for both poetry and creative nonfiction. She lives in northeast Ohio and teaches creative writing at Hiram College.
