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Rose McLarney

Rose McLarney’s collections of poems are Colorfast, Forage, Its Day Being Gone, and The Always Broken Plates of Mountains. She is coeditor of A Literary Field Guide to Southern Appalachia and the journal Southern Humanities Review. She has been awarded fellowships by MacDowell and Bread Loaf and Sewanee Writers’ Conferences, has served as Dartmouth poet- in-residence at the Frost Place, and is winner of the National Poetry Series, the Chaffin Award for Achievement in Appalachian Writing, and the Fellowship of Southern Writers’ New Writing Award for Poetry, among other prizes. Her work has appeared in American Poetry Review, The Kenyon Review, The Southern Review, New England Review, Prairie Schooner, Orion, and the Oxford American. She is currently the Lanier Endowed Professor of Creative Writing at Auburn University.

illustration of book cover with Colorfast