Mara Adamitz Scrupe

Mara Adamitz Scrupe is a poet and writer, visual artist, and documentary filmmaker. Her publications include five full poetry collections: Lamentations of the Tattoo Queen (2024), REAP a flora (2023), in the bare bones house of was (2020), Eat The Marrow (2019), and BEAST (2014). She has selections in generational anthologies by Southword/ Munster Literature, Aesthetica, Stony Thursday, and 64 Best Poets/ Black Mountain Press, and poems in key UK and US journals including Radar, Rhino, Tupelo, Cincinnati Review, The London Magazine, Mslexia, Magma, Abridged, and The Poetry Business/ Smith Doorstop. Twice nominated for the Pushcart Prize in Poetry, she has won or been shortlisted for significant literary awards. Mara is a fellow of the MacDowell Fellow and the Irish Museum of Modern Art, and she resides with her husband on their farm in the Blue Ridge Piedmont countryside of Virginia.