Bio:
Mary Ladd is co-editor of the award winning pop culture zine
Ape Culture, named one of the best web sites by Web Guide
Magazine and listed in one of Yahoo! Internet Life's issue of Humor on the Net. Her poems have appeared in Ape
Culture, The Wisconsin Review, Switched-on Gutenberg, Literal Latte, Natural Bridge, Tintern Abbey,
Eye
Dialect and Hilltop Press in West Yorkshire,
England. She has poems forthcoming in Mudfish and The
South Carolina Review. In 2004, Timberline Press published a book of haiku poems
co-written by Mary entitled St. Lou
Haiku. Her essays about pop culture have been published in Ape Culture and
Hermenaut,
The Journal of Heady Philosophy. She earned her B.A. from the University of
Missouri-St. Louis in 1991 and an M.F.A. in Poetry from Sarah Lawrence College in 1997.
She and her dogHelga
moved around a lot until Helga passed away in
May, 2004.
Between the two, they have lived in Albuquerque, New Mexico;
St. Louis, Missouri; Stow, Massachusetts; Yonkers, New York; Lititz,
Pennsylvania and Los Angeles, California, where she now works as a writer
and consultant. She and her co-editor at Ape Culture competed to win the
chance to live with The
Edgar Winter Dog in 2004 on the Animal Planet reality show Who Gets
the Dog.
Mary has been a talking head on radio
programs, college papers and The Philadelphia Enquirer as Cher Scholar.
She is the editor of the spoof fan site CherScholar.com, two
Cher fan zines (Superpak Vol. 1 and Golden Greats) and she
blogs as Cher Scholar on I Found
Some Blog.
Mingle a little folly with your wisdom;
a little nonsense now and then is pleasant.
-- Horace, Roman Poet