M. B. McLatchey
								M. B. McLatchey's poems have been published in The American Poetry Journal, The National Poetry Review, Shenandoah, The Southern Poetry Review, The Anthology of New England Writers, DMQ (disquieting muses quarterly) Review, Willow Springs, Ekphrasis, Beauty/Truth, The Comstock Review, The Spoon River Poetry Review, Georgetown Review, Tupelo Press, Science, Grain (Canadian), and the Emerson Review. Her poetry has also been featured as a Verse Daily favorite. Her recent awards include the 2007 Spoon River Poetry Review’s Editors’ Prize (Winner), the 2007 Penelope Niven Creative Nonfiction Award (Winner), the Annie Finch Prize for Poetry (Winner); the Vachel Lindsay Poetry Award (Winner), the 2007 Rita Dove Poetry Award (Finalist), the Lynda Hull Memorial Poetry Prize (Finalist), the Lumina Prize of Sarah Lawrence College (Finalist); the Robert Penn Warren Award (Honorable Mention);  the William Faulkner Poetry Prize (Finalist);  the Richard Snyder Memorial Poetry Prize (Finalist); and the Muriel Craft Bailey Memorial Award (Special Merit 2007, Finalist 2006).  Other awards include First Place in Poetry and publication from the Emerson Review; the Harvard University Danforth Prize for Excellence in Teaching; the Radcliffe Prize for Literary Scholarship; the Brown University Elmer Smith Award for Teaching; and Highest Honors from Williams College for her poetry collection Advantages of Believing. She is co-author of the book The Write Way. She holds a Masters degree in Comparative Literature from Harvard University, a Masters in Teaching from Brown University, the M.F.A. from Goddard College, and a B.A. from Williams College.  She has taught literature and writing at Harvard University, Rollins College, and the University of Central Florida.  Currently, she is a professor of Humanities at Valencia Community College in Orlando, Florida, where she lives with her husband and two sons... and writes. Selected Prose: Chapter 1: Right Notes Chapter 2: Isms Reviews: Judge's review: Isms Judge's review: The Rape of Chryssipus Email:  mbmclatchey@gmail.com
	Selected Publications: Aubade Against Elegies Prologue: A Kenning On Recognizing Saints Leaving the Mainland A Glass of Absinthe Teaching the Tragedies Days Inn Sanriku Girl at Piano The Arrangement Washday Odalisque The Rape of Chryssipus Museum The Rescue The Retrieval Arcadia Snow Globe Oaths, Curses, Blessings We Leave the Beaches for the Tourists, Mostly The Lame God Melville's Reader