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Nick McRae

Author's Bio

Nick McRae is the author of Mountain Redemption, winner of the Black River Chapbook Competition and forthcoming from Black Lawrence Press, and Moravia, forthcoming from Folded Word Press. His poems, reviews, and translations have appeared or are forthcoming in journals such as Birmingham Poetry Review, Hayden's Ferry Review, Linebreak, Passages North, The Southern Review, Third Coast, and other journals and anthologies. He has served in various editorial capacities at both scholarly and literary publications, including a/b: Auto/Biography Studies and The Journal, where he is the current Poetry Review Editor. Nick has been a Fulbright fellow in the Slovak Republic, where he taught English and American literature, a finalist for the Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation, and a University Fellow in Creative Writing at The Ohio State University, where he now studies poetry and teaches creative and analytical writing. He is currently compiling and editing a book manuscript entitled Gathered: The Anthology of Contemporary Quaker Poetry. Born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and raised in the Northwest Georgia mountains, Nick lives and writes in Columbus, Ohio.

Publications and Prizes

Chapbooks:
Moravia (Folded Word Press, 2013), Mountain Redemption (Black Lawrence Press, 2013)
Journals:
American Literary Review, Birmingham Arts Journal, Birmingham Poetry Review, Cellpoems, Copper Nickel, Country Dog Review, Diagram, Hayden's Ferry Review, Iron Horse Literary Review, Linebreak, Mead: The Magazine of Literature & Libations, Old Red Kimono, Passages North, Poet Lore, Rock & Sling, Sakura Review, Scythe, Stirring, storySouth, SUB-LIT, Sweet: A Literary Confection, The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature, The Southern Review, Third Coast, Willows Wept Review
Prizes:
Winner of the 2011 Black River Chapbook Competition from Black Lawrence Press. Finalist for the Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship. Best of the Net nomination. M.F.A. Scholarship to the Sewanee Writers' Conference. Best New Poets nomination. Fellowships from the J. William Fulbright Program and the Bucknell Seminar for Younger Poets. University Fellowship in Creative Writing from The Ohio State University. The Kay Magenheimer Poetry Prize from the University of West Georgia. Finalist for the Wick Poetry Center/Kent State University Press chapbook competition. Two-time finalist for the Agnes Scott College Writer's Festival Award in Poetry.

Nick McRae Resume

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Listing last updated: February 2, 2012

More Information

Listed as:
Poet
Gives readings?
Yes
Travels for readings?
Yes
Prefers to work with:
Any
Fluent in:
English
Born in:
Chattanooga, TN
Raised in:
LaFayette, GA

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