Biography

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, Phoebe--The Journal of Gender and Cultural Critiques, The South Carolina Review, 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. In 2004, Timberline Press published a book of haiku poems co-written by Mary entitled St. Lou Haiku. Her essays have been published in Book/Mark, 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 dog Helga 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 take home 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