Office Hours
Monday, Wednesday after class or by appointment via Zoom
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Education
MFA, Warren Wilson's MFA Program for Writers
About Me
Rose McLarney’s collections of poems are Colorfast, Forage, and Its Day Being Gone, from Penguin Poets, as well as The Always Broken Plates of Mountains, published by Four Way Books. A book of lyric essays, Rubble Masonry, from LSU Press, is her newest release. She is co-editor of A Literary Field Guide to Southern Appalachia, from University of Georgia Press, and the journal Southern Humanities Review.
Rose has been awarded fellowships by MacDowell and Bread Loaf and Sewanee Writers’ Conferences; 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 publications including American Poetry Review, The Kenyon Review, The Southern Review, New England Review, Prairie Schooner, Orion, and The Oxford American.
Research Interests
contemporary poetry, lyric essays, creative writing
Publications
Rubble Masonry (LSU, 2026)
Colorfast (Penguin, 2024)
Forage (Penguin, 2019)
A Literary Field Guide to Southern Appalachia (UGA, 2019)
Its Day Being Gone (Penguin, 2014)
The Always Broken Plates of Mountains (Four Way Book, 2012)
Courses Taught
Graduate poetry writing workshops, undergraduate Poetry II and Capstone courses