Mary Szybist
Morgan S. Odell Professor of Humanities
Spring 2026: Tuesdays and Thursdays 12:30-1:30 & by appointment
Mary Szybist is Morgan S. Odell Professor of Humanities at Lewis & Clark College. She is most recently the author of Incarnadine, winner of the 2013 National Book Award for Poetry.
She is the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Rona Jaffe Foundation, and the Witter Bynner Foundation in conjunction with the Library of Congress. Her work has been awarded two Pushcart Prizes and has been supported by residencies at the MacDowell Colony and the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center in Bellagio, Italy. Her first book Granted won the 2004 GLCA New Writers Award and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.
Mary grew up in Williamsport, Pennsylvania and attended the University of Virginia and the University of Iowa Writers Workshop. She has called Portland home since 2004.