Lynne McMahon is an American

poet A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry. Poets may describe themselves as such or be described as such by others. A poet may simply be the creator ( thinker, songwriter, writer, or author) who creates (composes) poems ( oral or wri ...

. She graduated from

University of Utah The University of Utah (U of U, UofU, or simply The U) is a public research university in Salt Lake City, Utah. It is the flagship institution of the Utah System of Higher Education. The university was established in 1850 as the University of De ...

with a PhD in 1982. She teaches at

University of Missouri The University of Missouri (Mizzou, MU, or Missouri) is a public land-grant research university in Columbia, Missouri. It is Missouri's largest university and the flagship of the four-campus University of Missouri System. MU was founded in ...

, Her work has appeared in ''The New York Times Book Review, New Virginia Review, American Poetry Review, The Southern Review, The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, The Nation, Partisan Review, Poetry, The New Republic, Rolling Stone, The Yale Review, The New England Review and The Paris Review''.

Awards

* Award for Literary Excellence from the

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* 1995 Guggenheim Fellowship *

Ingram Merrill Foundation The Ingram Merrill Foundation was a private foundation established in the mid-1950s by poet James Merrill (1926-1995), using funds from his substantial family inheritance.J. D. McClatchyBraving the Elements ''The New Yorker'', 27 March 1995. Retrie ...

fellowship * Missouri Arts Council grant

Works

"On Deciding To Fire My Chiropractor"
''Slate'', Jan. 28, 2003
"Birthday Poem"
''The Nation''
"Convalescence"
''The American Poetry Review'' Vol. 18 No. 3
''Faith''
(Wesleyan University Press, 1988)
''Devolution of the Nude''
(David R. Godine, 1993) * The House of Entertaining Science (David R. Godine, 1999)
''Sentimental Standards''
(David R. Godine, 2004)

Anthologies

"We Take Our Children to Ireland"
''Poets of the New Century'', Editors Roger Weingarten, Richard Higgerson, David R. Godine Publisher, 2001,
"We Take Our Children to Ireland"
''The Best American Poetry 2000'', Editors Rita Dove, David Lehman, Simon and Schuster, 2000, *"Barbie's Ferrari", ''Poetry 180: a turning back to poetry'', Editor Billy Collins, Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2003,
"Wedding Ring"
''180 more: extraordinary poems for every day'', Editor Billy Collins, Random House, Inc., 2005,
"Not Falling"
''The extraordinary tide: new poetry by American women'', Editors Susan Aizenberg, Erin Belieu, Jeremy Countryman, Columbia University Press, 2001,

References

External links

"Poetry in Motion: Lynne McMahon takes flight at The Side Project"
''New City Stage'' {{DEFAULTSORT:McMahon, Lynne University of Utah alumni University of Missouri faculty Living people American women poets Year of birth missing (living people) American women academics 21st-century American women