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M. A. Dubbs [1]

Listed as: 
Poet, Fiction Writer
Public address: 
Indianapolis, IN
Indiana US
Bio: 

M. A. Dubbs is an award-winning Mexican-American and LGBT+ writer who hails from Indiana. Dubbs writes poetry, short-fiction, and visual art. Her writing has been published in literary magazines, anthologies, and zines across the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Japan, India, Austria, Australia and Nigeria. Dubbs is the author of three poetry collections: Aerodynamic Drag: Poetry and Short Fiction (2021),  An American Mujer (Bottlecap Press, 2022) and Limestone Versified: Indiana Haiku and Poetry (2023). Her fourth collection, A Walk to Americana, releases in 2025 with Dancing Girl Press.

Her poetry has been archived in Indiana's Poetry Archive (INverse) and she served as judge for the 2022 Poetry Out Loud's state competition. Dubbs has performed in several live and virtual readings including being a featured author for both Poets Laureate of Lawrence and Brick Street Poetry of Zionsville. She also performed at the 2021 Grand Opening of Fort Ben’s Culture Campus and the 2023 Grand Opening of Indianapolis’ Fort Ben Library. In 2024 she performed at DePauw University as part of the Hidden Sun solar eclipse tour sponsored by Indiana Humanities Action Grant. Her Hidden Sun haiku was printed on a banner and hung in Greencastle Square as public art. Dubbs is active in the local writing community, holding free writing workshops and resource share for new writers through Poets Laureate of Lawrence and attending HEPL Local Author Fair in Fishers, IN.

Dubbs earned her BA in English at Indiana University Bloomington. She was president and founder of IU’s Creative Writing Club and was an Associate Editor of poetry, non-fiction, and literary fiction for The Scribe, a literary ezine. Dubbs was also an intern for the nationally celebrated Indiana Review.

Dubbs lives with her husband, twin girls, cat, and dog and enjoys hiking, gardening, running, mushroom foraging, video games and watching 90s magical girl anime.

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
In which languages are you fluent?: 
English
Favorite authors: 
John Dos Passos, Tim O'Brien, Lorrie Moore, Toni Morrison, Edgar Allan Poe, Virginia Woolf, Joe Sacco, Riad Sattouf
Born in: 
IN
Indiana
RSS feed: 
https://madubbspoetry.wordpress.com/feed [2]
Website: 
https://madubbspoetry.wordpress.com/ [3]
Prizes won: 
  • 2022 Pushcart Nomination for “The Conquest of Hoarding” from Oyster River Pages
  • 2023 Holden Vaughn Spangler Award, RCC Muse, "The Quiets of Parenting"
  • 2024 Garden Party Collective Chapbook Contest Finalist In the Shadow of Sanity: Poems on Mental Health
  • 2025 Garden Party Collective Chapbook Contest Finalist Ain't No Lie, I'm Bi, Bi, Bi
  • Melba Geoffroy Poetry Contest 2012 1st Place: "Indiana Night"
  • Genesis Best-of-Poetry Award Fall 2014: "Slash and Burn"
  • Spectrum Poetry Competition 2022 Long-list "A Bi Awakening in a Red State"
  • 44th Annual PSI Love of Poetry Award 2nd Place "Poetic Paramour"
  • 44th Annual PSI Membership 3rd Place "A Forager's Haiku in Seasons"
  • Finalist 2022 Onwords Press Who Freakin' Cares Poetry Contest "A Digital Obituary"
  • Renard Press 2023 Kinship Poetry Competition Short-list: "Here's to Us Spanglish Kids"
  • 2024 5th Annual Mukai Farm & Garden Haiku Festival Contest Social Justice 3rd Place "Untitled Haiku"
Identifies as: 
Hispanic
White
Prefers to work with: 
LGBTQ
Mental Health

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