# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mary-ruefle
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:22:05.910Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mary-ruefle"
name: "Mary Ruefle"
slug: "mary-ruefle"
description: "Mary Ruefle is an American poet, essayist, and professor. She has published many collections of poetry, the most recent of which, Dunce, was long-listed for the National Book Award in Poetry and a finalist for the 2020 Pulitzer Prize. Ruefle has also published prose, with her debut collection, The Most Of It, released in 2008. A book of her collected lectures, Madness, Rack, and Honey, was released in 2012, and she published her most recent prose work, The Book, in 2023. Ruefle is known for experimenting with erasure poetry and published an erasure book, A Little White Shadow, in 2006. From 2019 to 2024, she served as the Poet Laureate of Vermont."
tagline: "American poet, essayist and professor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ruefle-photo-bw.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1952-04-16"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           47.84
  momentum:             14.54289732770745
  historical:           6.837224
  currentAttention:     30
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm11853441/"
    handle:    "nm11853441"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump