Robert McKay

Poet

Seattle, WA
Washington US
Email: 
rjmckayiv@gmail.com
Website: 
instagram.com/miraculousweapons
Twitter/X: 
@RobertMcKayLit

Author's Bio

 

Robert McKay is a tutor, classroom aide, bartender, unionist & community organizer in Seattle. Robert studied philosophy & was an undergraduate fellow at the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. His first book of poems was Cities of rain (Honeybee Press, 2012). Poems have appeared recently or are forthcoming in jubilat, Green Mountains Review, Requited, Existere, Siren & others. Robert lives in Capitol Hill with his partner, a union organizer, & their cat, a sadomasochist. He is at work on a mistranslation of Rimbaud’s A season in hell (1873) and on his first novel.

Writers Retreats: 
Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference

Publications & Prizes

Book:
Cities of rain (Honeybee Press, 2012)
Journals:
ditch,
,
Green Mountains Review
,
Jubilat
,
Measure
,
OccuPoetry
,
Requited Journal
,
Siren

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Personal Favorites

Favorite authors: 
Roberto Bolaño Ursula K. LeGuin Ismail Kadare Anne Carson Monica Youn Raymond Chandler William Gibson Cory Doctorow Annalee Newitz Ben Lerner Ahmadou Kourouma Marguerite Dura Aimé Césaire
What I'm reading now: 
Climate Leviathan by Geoff Mann & Joel Wainwright

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Born in: 
Burlington, VT
Vermont
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Last update: Aug 03, 2019