by Mary Biddinger (Author)
Against the backdrop of a boozy, restless late-90s Chicago, creative writing graduate student Mary Van Pelt and her eccentric roommate navigate the collision between party life, domestic harmony, and academic ambition in The Girl with the Black Lipstick.
Author Biography
Mary Biddinger's debut work of fiction is The Girl with the Black Lipstick, a novella in linked flash stories. She is also the author of numerous books of poetry, including Department of Elegy and Partial Genius: Prose Poems. Biddinger is co-editor, with Julie Brooks Barbour, of A Mollusk Without a Shell: Essays on Self-Care for Writers. She teaches literature and creative writing at the University of Akron and in the NEOMFA program, and has received awards and fellowships from the Cleveland Arts Prize, Ohio Arts Council, and National Endowment for the Arts.
Number of Pages: 118
Dimensions: 0.28 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN
Publication Date: July 08, 2025
