Mara Adamitz Scrupe is the author of six award-winning poetry collections: in the bare bones house of was (Brighthorse Press), Eat the Marrow (Erbacce-press), BEAST (NFSPS Press), a daughter’s aubade/ sailing out from Sognefjord (Middle Creek Publishing), Magnalia (Eyewear Press) and Sky Pilot (Finishing Line Press).

Her poems have been published widely in national and international literary magazines and journals including London Magazine, Mid America Review, Nimrod, MsLexia, 30West, Black Mountain Press, Sequestrum, Maine Review, Rhino, Comstock Review, Off the Coast, Narrative Magazine, Cincinnati Review, Bare Fiction, Matador Review, Ruminate, Crosswinds Review, Crab Creek Review and Sentinel Quarterly Literary Review (UK).

She has won or been shortlisted or nominated for many international poetry awards and prizes including Bridport Prize (UK), Canterbury International Arts Festival Poet of the Year (UK), Forward Prize for Poetry (UK), Pushcart Poetry Prize (USA) Rubery Book Award (UK), Brighthorse Poetry Book Prize (USA), Grindstone International Poetry Competition (UK), Fish Prize (Ireland), Aesthetica Poetry Prize (UK), Erbacce-press Poetry Book Prize (UK), Plough Prize (UK), Ron Pretty Prize (Australia), Periplum Book Award, Cornwall Festival Competition (UK), Canberra Vice-Chancellor’s Award, (Australia), and National Poetry Competition (UK). 

Mara Adamitz Scrupe’s fellowships, grants and awards in creative writing and the visual arts include the National Endowment for the Arts/CEC ArtsLink Fellowship (USA), the District of Columbia (Washington, DC) Individual Fellowship, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Fellowship and the Virginia Individual Artist Fellowship. She is a fellow of MacDowell Colony, Djerassi Foundation and Tyrone Guthrie Centre (Ireland), and she has been awarded residencies by the Montalvo Arts Center, the Irish Museum of Modern Art Residency Programme (Dublin), Europos Parkas Open Air Museum (Lithuania) and USF Verftet-AiR/Bergen (Norway), among many others.