Mara Adamitz Scrupe’s first chapbook, Sky Pilot, was nominated for the 2013 Library of Virginia Literary Awards. For her first book-length work, Beast, she was named the winner of the 2014 Stevens Poetry Manuscript Competition. A graduate of Macalester College, as well as the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College, where she earned an MFA, she has been awarded several national and international visual arts and poetry prizes. A finalist in Narrative’s Eighth Annual Poetry Contest, Scrupe is a professor of interdisciplinary arts at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia.