M.b. McLatchey

M.B. McLatchey is a widely published poet and scholar with an extensive background in literature, philosophy, and ancient and modern languages. Her numerous teaching and research awards include the Harvard University Danforth Prize, the Harvard/Radcliffe Prize for Literary Scholarship, the Brown University Elmer Smith Award for Teaching, and the Distinguished Teaching Award in the Humanities and the Distinguished Scholarship Award in the Humanities from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. Her debut poetry collection, The Lame God, was awarded the 16th Annual May Swenson Poetry Prize and published by Utah State University Press. McLatchey has authored several literary reviews compiled a text book supplement for Humanities courses titled, Primary Sources and she is a contributor to the book, Mapping the Line: Poets on Teaching. Her most recent poetry awards include the 2011 American Poet Prize, the Annie Finch Prize for Poetry, the Spoon River Poetry Review’s Editors’ Prize, the Penelope Niven Creative Nonfiction Award, and the Vachel Lindsay Poetry Award. McLatchey has worked as a speechwriter for a state senator, as a reporter for a daily newspaper, as a magazine editor for a major publisher, and as a reader and book reviewer for The Spoon River Poetry Review. She holds degrees in comparative literature and languages, in teaching, and in English literature from Harvard University, Brown University, and Williams College, as well as the MFA in Creative Writing from Goddard College. Visit her at www.mbmclatchey.com