Mary Karr's poems and essays have won Pushcart prizes and have appeared in magazines such as the New Yorker,The Atlantic, andParnassus . She was a Bunting Fellow at Radcliffe College, and is now the Jesse Truesdale Peck Professor of English Literature at Syracuse.

Mary Karr's poems and essays have won Pushcart prizes and have appeared in magazines such as the New Yorker,The Atlantic, andParnassus . She was a Bunting Fellow at Radcliffe College, and is now the Jesse Truesdale Peck Professor of English Literature at Syracuse.