Visiting Writers Lecture Series

Mary Szybist grew up in Pennsylvania and is a graduate the University of Virginia and of The University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Her book of poetry, Granted, won the 2002 Beatrice Hawley Award was a finalist for the 2003 National Book Critics Circle Award. She is the recipient of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writing Award and the 2004 winner of the Great Lakes Colleges Association’s New Writers Award in Poetry. Mary currently teaches at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon.