Susan McLean
Encyclopedia
Susan McLean is an American poet
, and a professor of English at Southwest Minnesota State University
in Marshall, Minnesota
.
She graduated from Rutgers University
with a PhD in 1990.
Her work has appeared in Kalliope, Atlanta Review, The Formalist, Iambs and Trochees, Arion, Measure, The Classical Outlook, Literary Imagination.
Poet
A poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary...
, and a professor of English at Southwest Minnesota State University
Southwest Minnesota State University
Southwest Minnesota State University is a public, four-year university that is part of the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities System. It is located in Marshall, Minnesota, United States, a city of 13,000 people. The school has a full-time enrollment of approximately 3,500 students and...
in Marshall, Minnesota
Marshall, Minnesota
As of the census of 2000, there were 12,735 people, 4,914 households, and 2,914 families residing in the city. The population density was 1,537.0 people per square mile . There were 5,182 housing units at an average density of 625.4 per square mile...
.
She graduated from Rutgers University
Rutgers University
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey , is the largest institution for higher education in New Jersey, United States. It was originally chartered as Queen's College in 1766. It is the eighth-oldest college in the United States and one of the nine Colonial colleges founded before the American...
with a PhD in 1990.
Her work has appeared in Kalliope, Atlanta Review, The Formalist, Iambs and Trochees, Arion, Measure, The Classical Outlook, Literary Imagination.
Awards
- 2009 Richard Wilbur Award
- 2006 the Leslie Mellichamp Prize from The Lyric
- 2004 McKnight Artist Fellowship/Loft Award in Poetry
Works
- "Deep Cover"; "Desire"; "Hazard", Mezzo Cammin
- "Translations of Latin epigrams by Martial", The Chimaera, January 2008
- "Vanity: On a painting by Frank Cadogan Cowper", Eratosphere
- "Unscripted"; "Raw", Umbrella, Issue 2, 2007
- The Best Disguise, University of Evansville Press, 2009, ISBN 9780930982683
- Holding Patterns, Finishing Line Press, 2006, ISBN 9781599240961
Anthologies
- Kiss and Part: Laughing at the End of Romance and Other Entanglements, (Doggerel Daze Press, 2005)
- Sonnets: 150 Contemporary Sonnets University of Evansville Press, 2005, ISBN 9780930982591