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Harvard University.
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Maureen McLane
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McLane was raised in upstate New New York She holds degrees from Harvard University, University of Oxford (where she was a Rhodes Scholar), and University of Chicago. She is the author of four books of poetry, including This Blue.
McLane is also a contributing editor at Boston Review and poetry editor at Grey.
She is currently an Associate Professor of English at New York University. lieutenant was named as one of the Chicago Tribune Literary Editor’s Best Books.
Her follow-up book, World Enough: poems (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2010), was selected by Paul Muldoon in The New Yorker as a best poetry book of the year. Writing in Bookforum, Parul Sehgal remarked that “To read McLane is to be reminded that the brain may be an organ, but the mind is a muscle.
Hers is a roving, amphibious intelligence.
She’s at home in the essay and the fragment, the polemic and the elegy.".
Achievements
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National Book Critics Circle 2012 Finalist in Autobiography Golden Dozen Award, New York University College of Arts and Sciences Teaching Award, 2012 New York University Humanities Institute, Faculty Award for Publishing the Most Books in 2008 Harvard University Certificate of Distinction in Teaching, Committee on Undergraduate Education, 2006 John Clive Teaching Award in History and Literature, Harvard University, 2005 National Book Critics Circle Nona Balakian Award for Excellence in Book Reviewing, 2003.
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Awards
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Lambda Literary Award; The Publishing Triangle Audre Lorde Award; National Book Critics Circle Award National Book Critics Circle 2012 Finalist in Autobiography Golden Dozen Award, New York University College of Arts and Sciences Teaching Award, 2012 New York University Humanities Institute, Faculty Award for Publishing the Most Books in 2008 Harvard University Certificate of Distinction in Teaching, Committee on Undergraduate Education, 2006 John Clive Teaching Award in History and Literature, Harvard University, 2005 National Book Critics Circle Nona Balakian Award for Excellence in Book Reviewing, 2003 Lambda Literary (also known as the 'Lammys') are awarded yearly by the US-based Lambda Literary Foundation to published works which celebrate or explore LGBT themes.Lambda Literary Award; The Publishing Triangle Audre Lorde Award; National Book Critics Circle Award National Book Critics Circle 2012 Finalist in Autobiography Golden Dozen Award, New York University College of Arts and Sciences Teaching Award, 2012 New York University Humanities Institute, Faculty Award for Publishing the Most Books in 2008 Harvard University Certificate of Distinction in Teaching, Committee on Undergraduate Education, 2006 John Clive Teaching Award in History and Literature, Harvard University, 2005 National Book Critics Circle Nona Balakian Award for Excellence in Book Reviewing, 2003 Lambda Literary (also known as the 'Lammys') are awarded yearly by the US-based Lambda Literary Foundation to published works which celebrate or explore LGBT themes.