Scrupe, Mara Adamitz: - Mara Adamitz Scrupe is a visual artist, a poet, and the author of six award-winning poetry collections. Her fellowships include NEA CEC/ArtsLink, Washington, DC Arts Commission, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Virginia Arts Commission, MacDowell Colony, Djerassi Foundation, Tyrone Guthrie Centre/Ireland, Montalvo Arts Center, Irish Museum of Modern Art Artist Fellowship Programme, and USF Verftet-AiR/Bergen. Her poems have been published widely in national and international literary magazines, journals, and anthol¬ogies, and she has won or been shortlisted for Canterbury Interna¬tional Arts Festival Poet of the Year (UK), Brighthorse Poetry Book Prize (USA), Grindstone International Poetry Competition (UK), Fish Prize (Ireland), Aesthetica Award (UK), Erbacce-press Poetry Book Prize (UK), Plough Prize (UK), Ron Pretty Prize (Australia), Cornwall Festival Competition (UK), Canberra Vice-Chancellor's Award, (Australia), and National Poetry Competition (UK), among others. Mara is a marathon runner, an accordionist, and art professor and dean of the School of Art, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, USA. She lives with her husband on their farm overlooking the James River in central Virginia.