Mara Adamitz Scrupe is an award-winning poet and artist. Her visual art projects are represented in museum collections in the U.S., Europe and China and her poems have been published and anthologized in international literary journals and magazines. Scrupe's first book-length collection of poems BEAST won the 2014 Stevens Manuscript Prize awarded annually by the National Federation of State Poetry Societies, and her individual poems have been shortlisted for poetry awards and prizes in the U.S., UK, and Ireland.