Mary Ann Samyn
Poet & Teacher
BOOKS
BIO
Mary Ann Samyn is the author of six collections of poetry: Air, Light, Dust, Shadow, Distance, winner of the 2017 42 Miles Press Prize; My Life in Heaven, winner of the 2012 FIELD Prize; Beauty Breaks In; Purr; Inside the Yellow Dress; and Captivity Narrative, winner of the 1999 Ohio State UP/The Journal Prize. She has also published two chapbooks. She is Professor of English in the MFA in Creative Writing program at West Virginia University. She lives in West Virginia and in Michigan.
READINGS, ETC.
2021
October 14, Oakland University, craft talk & reading
2020
November 14, Leland Township (MI) Public Library, workshop
June 20, Leland Townshiip (MI) Public Library, workshop
2019
February 8, Northern Kentucky University, workshop & reading
June 15, Leland Township (MI) Public Library, workshop
September 24, Carlow University, reading
October 24 & 25, University of Louisville, reading & master class
2018
October 4, University of Virginia, reading
October 23, Indiana University-South Bend, reading
October 30, Penn State-Altoona, reading
November 1, WVU, reading
