Mary Catherine Harper

Mary Catherine Harper, Defiance College Professor of English and poet, teaches creative writing, literature, and composition. Some Gods Don’t Need Saints was a semifinalist in the 2015 New Women's Voices Chapbook Competition. Other poems are forthcoming or have appeared in The Comstock Review, Cold Mountain Review, Old Northwest Review, Pudding Magazine, and MidAmerica, and her poem “Muddy World” won the 2013 Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Prize of the Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature. She organizes and reads poetry at the yearly SwampFire Retreat of artists and writers at 4 Corners Gallery in Angola, Indiana. More information can be found at www.mcharper.faculty.defiance.edu