Mary Quade is the author of Guide to Native Beasts (Cleveland State University Poetry Center) and Local Extinctions (Gold Wake) and the winner of the 2022 the Journal Non/Fiction Prize. Look for her new book Zoo World: Essays in Fall 2023 from The ohio State University Press Mad Creek Books.

A graduate of the University of Chicago and the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop, she is the recipient of an Oregon Literary Fellowship and four Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Awards for both poetry and creative nonfiction (2006, 2010, 2014, 2020).

Before moving to Ohio, she taught high school English and photography in Oregon. Since 2002, she has lived in northeast Ohio on the last few acres of a former dairy farm with her husband, Cris Harris. She is a professor of English at Hiram College in Ohio, where she teaches creative writing.