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,
the Cider Press Review, 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.
Email:     
mbmclatchey@gmail.com
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