Mary Austin Speaker

Mary Austin Speaker is the author of the chapbooks In the End There Were Thousands of Cowboys, Abandoning the Firmament (Menagerie Editions 2009 and 2010), and The Bridge (Push Press 2011); a collaborative play, I Am You This Morning You Are Me Tonight, written with her husband, poet Chris Martin; and the forthcoming collection, Ceremony, winner of the 2012 Slope prize. New poems have recently appeared in epiphany, Boston Review, Boog City Reader, 20012, Iowa Review, la fovea, High Chair, Lungfull, New Orleans Review and elsewhere, and her critical work can be found in Pleiades, The Claudius App, and Painted Bride Quarterly. She works as a book designer in Iowa City, IA.