M.B. McLatchey

M. B. McLatchey's poems have been published in The American Poetry Journal, The
National Poetry Review, River Styx, The Spoon River Poetry Review, Georgetown Review,
Writers, DMQ (disquieting muses quarterly) Review, Willow Springs, Ekphrasis, Beauty/Truth,
The Comstock Review, Tupelo Press, the Cider Press Review, Science, Grain, and the
Emerson Review. Her poetry has also been featured as a Verse Daily favorite.

Her literary awards include the American Poetry Journal's American Poet Prize for 2011, the
Spoon River Poetry Review Editors’ Prize, the Annie Finch Prize for Poetry, the Vachel
Lindsay Poetry Award, the Penelope Niven Creative Nonfiction Award, and Finalist for the
May Swenson Poetry Award, the Rita Dove Poetry Award, the Lynda Hull Memorial Poetry
Prize, the Lumina Prize of Sarah Lawrence College, the Robert Penn Warren Award, the
William Faulkner Poetry Prize, the Richard Snyder Memorial Poetry Prize, the Muriel Craft
Bailey Memorial Award, and the Erskine J. Poetry Prize.

She 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 has served on the Board of Trustees for Goddard College
in Vermont and she is co-author of the book, The Write Way.

Academic awards include the Harvard University Danforth Prize for Excellence in Teaching,
the Radcliffe Prize for Literary Scholarship, the Brown University Elmer Smith Award for
Teaching, the Yeats International Summer School Graduate Fellowship, and Highest
Honors from Williams College for her poetry collection Advantages of Believing.

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, the
University of Central Florida, Valencia Community College, and is currently teaching writing
and Humanities at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona, Florida.

Email:
mbmclatchey@gmail.com