MARY RUEFLE's latest book is Selected Poems (Wave Books, 2010), which won the William Carlos Williams Award. A collection of her lectures, Madness, Rack and Honey - all of which were given at VCFA over the years - will be published by Wave in the fall of 2012. She has won many awards for her work, including an NEA, a Whiting Award, a Guggenheim, and an Award in Literature from The American Academy of Arts and Letters. She also makes one-of-a-kind erasure books, which have been exhibited in museums and galleries. Mary lives in southern Vermont.