Printable view of Robert Aquinas McNally

Listed as:

Poet

Public address:

Concord, CA

California US

Email:

ramcnally@nasw.org

Bio:

Robert Aquinas McNally is the author or coauthor of ten books of nonfiction as well as four poetry chapbooks and one full-length collection. His poems have appeared in a long list of anthologies and journals, and five times they have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. A member of Authors Guild, National Association of Science Writers, Native American Journalists Association, and Western Writers of America, McNally wanders, wonders, and writes in Northern California.

Gives readings:

Yes

Travels for readings:

Yes

In which languages are you fluent?:

English

Twitter/X:

@ramcnally

Born in:

Columbus, OH

Ohio

Raised in:

Columbus, OH

Ohio

Website:

https://www.ramcnally.com [2]

Prizes won:

2018 California Book Awards gold medal from the Commonwealth Club of California for "The Modoc War: A Story of Genocide at the Dawn of America's Gilded Age." 2018 nonfiction finalist in Northern California Book Awards for "The Modoc War." 2016 category finalist, Eric Hoffer Book Awards, for "Simply to Know Its Name." 2014 Grayson Books Poetry Prize, for "Simply to Know Its Name." Finalist, 2014 Brittingham Prize. Finalist, 2014 Sixteen Rivers Press competition. Finalist, 2014 Liam Rector First Book Prize for Poetry. Finalist, 2014 Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Prize. Finalist, 2014 Tampa Review Prize for Poetry. 2012 Grayson Books Poetry Chapbook Award for "Songs of the Two Names." 2011 Berkeley Poets' Dinner Grand Prize.

What I'm reading now:

Naked for Tea by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer

Canto General by Pablo Neruda

Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse

Das Gesamtwerk by Wolfgang Borchert

Identifies as:

Irish American

Prefers to work with:

Adults