Mary Ruefle has published six books of poetry, the most recent of which is Among the Musk Ox People (2002). She is the author of The Adamant (1989) and Cold Pluto (1986). She is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Fellowship, a Whiting Writers' Award, and an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, She teaches in the MFA in Writing Program at Vermont College.