Austin MacRae

Poet

Cortland, NY
New York US

Author's Bio

Austin MacRae is the author of The Organ Builder from Dos Madres Press of Loveland, OH. He was born in 1979 in Cortland, NY, and raised on forty acres of family farmland. He now teaches English at Tompkins Cortland Community College in Dryden, N.Y. Recent poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Atlanta Review, 32 Poems, Birmingham Poetry Review, Stone Canoe, The Cortland Review, Rattle, Unsplendid, Measure, The Formalist, The Raintown Review, The Formalist, Pivot, Blue Unicorn, Lucid Rhythms, 14 by 14: The Lean Sonnet Zine, The Chimaera and elsewhere. He is the author of two poetry chapbooks, most recently Graceways (Exot Books, 2008), available at http://exot.typepad.com/exotbooks/ for $12.00. He was recently nominated for a Pushcart Prize and named finalist for the Morton Marr Poetry Prize.

Publications & Prizes

Anthologies:
Villanelles (Random House, 2012)
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Sonnets: 150 Contemporary Sonnets (University of Evansville Press, 2005)
Books:
The Organ Builder (Dos Madres Press, 2012)
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Graceways (Modern Metrics, 2008)
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The Second Rose (Foothills Publishing, 2002)
Journals: ,
14 by 14: the lean sonnet zine
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Atlanta Review
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Birmingham Poetry Review
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Blue Unicorn
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Formalist
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Lucid Rhythms
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Lyric
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Measure
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Pivot
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The Chimaera
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Unsplendid
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Verse Wisconsin

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Identifies as: 
White
Prefers to work with: 
Any
Fluent in: 
English
Born in: 
Cortland
Raised in: 
Cortland, NY
New York
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Last update: Apr 25, 2012