Rose McLarney is the author of
Its Day Being Gone, winner of the National Poetry Series, and
Forage, forthcoming in 2019, both from Penguin Books, as well as
The Always Broken Plates of Mountains, published by Four Way Books.
A Literary Field Guide to Southern Appalachia, which she is co-editing, is forthcoming from University of Georgia Press in 2018. Rose has been awarded fellowships by the MacDowell Colony, Bread Loaf and Sewanee Writers’ Conferences; served as Dartmouth Poet in Residence at the Frost Place; and has received other prizes such as Fellowship of Southern Writers’ New Writing Award for Poetry. Her work has appeared in publications including
The Kenyon Review, The Southern Review, New England Review, Prairie Schooner, Missouri Review,
The Oxford American, and many other journals. Rose earned her MFA from Warren Wilson's MFA Program for Writers and has taught at the college, among other institutions. Currently, she is Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Auburn University and Co-Editor in Chief and Poetry Editor of
The Southern Humanities Review.
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