{{short description|American poet (born 1948)}} {{for|the author of the novels Triad and Salem's Children|Mary Bartlet Leader}} {{infobox writer |name=Mary Leader |image= |caption=Leader at Hore Abbey, County Tipperary, Republic of Ireland |birth_date={{birth date and age|1948|1|9}} |birth_place=Pawnee, Oklahoma, U.S. |occupation={{flatlist| *Poet *lawyer }} |education=Oklahoma State University<br>University of Oklahoma (BA, JD)<br>Warren Wilson College (MFA)<br>Brandeis University (PhD) |parents=Joe Hauser Privett<br>Katherine Jo Haddox }} '''Mary Leader''' (born January 9, 1948) is an American poet and lawyer.
==Life== Mary Leader was born on January 9, 1948, in Pawnee, Oklahoma, to Katherine Jo (Haddox) Privett, a poet, and Joe Hauser Privett, a clothing merchant.
==Awards== * Emory University Creative Writing Fellowship * National Poetry Series * Chad Walsh Poetry Prize * Iowa Poetry Prize
==Books== * ''Red Signature'', Graywolf Press. ISBN 978-1-55597-255-1 * ''The Penultimate Suitor'', University of Iowa Press. ISBN 978-0-87745-748-4 * ''Beyond the Fire'', Shearsman Books. ISBN 978-1-84861-122-1 * ''She Lives There Still,'' Shearsman Books. ISBN 978-1-84861-584-7 * ''The Distaff Side'', Shearman Books. ISBN 978-1-84861-806-0
==Education== * Attended Oklahoma State University * Bachelor of Arts, Oklahoma University * Juris Doctor, Oklahoma University * Master of Fine Arts, MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College * Doctor of Philosophy, Brandeis University
==Career== * Assistant Oklahoma Attorney General * Legal Assistant, Oklahoma Court of Appeals * Referee, Oklahoma Supreme Court * Visiting Assistant Professor, Louisiana State University * Associate Professor, University of Memphis * Full Professor, Purdue University
==External links== *Shearsman Books http://www.shearsman.com/store/Leader-Mary-c28271805 *Writer's Almanac https://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/index.php%3Fdate=1999%252F04%252F05.html *"Girl at Sewing Machine", Emory University http://english.emory.edu/classes/paintings&poems/sewing.html *"For the Love Gerald Finzi", Beloit Poetry Journal https://www.bpj.org/works/v66n3-4p037-for-the-love-of-gerald-finzi-leader *Conversation between Mary Leader and Mark Yakich featuring their mentor-mentee collaboration, ''[https://www.amazon.com/12-Conversations-21st-Century-Poetry-Poetics/dp/1587297914 12 x 12: Conversations in 21st-Century Poetry and Poetics]'' (Eds. Christina Mengert and Joshua Marie Wilkinson) {{Authority control}}
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