Mara Adamitz Scrupe

Mara Adamitz Scrupe is an environmental installation artist, filmmaker, poet, and essayist. She has authored eight award-winning poetry collections, her poems and essays have been published in literary journals worldwide, and she has been the recipient of many international literary and visual arts awards, prizes, residencies, and fellowships.

Mara is a fellow of the MacDowell Colony and the Irish Museum of Modern Art, and she serves as Dean and Professor Emerita, University of the Arts Philadelphia.

She resides with her husband on their farm in the Blue Ridge Piedmont countryside of Virginia.