Mary Leader

Mary Leader was born on January 9,1948, in Pawnee, Oklahoma, to Katherine Jo (Haddox) Privett, a poet, and Joe Hauser Privett, a clothing merchant.

• Emory University Creative Writing Fellowship
• National Poetry Series
• Chad Walsh Poetry Prize
• Iowa Poetry Prize

• Red Signature, Graywolf Press. ISBN 978-1-55597-255-1
• The Penultimate Suitor, University of Iowa Press. ISBN 978-0-87745-748-4
• Beyond the Fire, Shearsman Books. ISBN 978-1-84861-122-1
• She Lives There Still, Shearsman Books. ISBN 978-1-84861-584-7
• The Distaff Side, Shearman Books. ISBN 978-1-84861-806-0

• Attended Oklahoma State University
• Bachelor of Arts, Oklahoma University
• Juris Doctor, Oklahoma University
• Master of Fine Arts, MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College
• Doctor of Philosophy, Brandeis University

• Assistant Oklahoma Attorney General
• Legal Assistant, Oklahoma Court of Appeals
• Referee, Oklahoma Supreme Court
• Visiting Assistant Professor, Louisiana State University
• Associate Professor, University of Memphis
• Full Professor, Purdue University

• Shearsman Books http://www.shearsman.com/store/Leader-Mary-c28271805
• Writer's Almanac https://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/index.php%3Fdate=1999%252F04%252F05.html
• "Girl at Sewing Machine", Emory University http://english.emory.edu/classes/paintings&poems/sewing.html
• "For the Love Gerald Finzi", Beloit Poetry Journal https://www.bpj.org/works/v66n3-4p037-for-the-love-of-gerald-finzi-leader