Rose McLarney reads her poems at the 2014 Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference.

“Watershed” was published in Missouri Review.

“Story with a Real Beast and a Little Blood in It” was published in Poetry Daily and Slate.

Rose McLarney’s second book, Its Day Being Gone, won the National Poetry Series award and was published by Penguin in May 2014. Her first book, The Always Broken Plates of Mountains, is available from Four Way Books. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in publications including Kenyon Review, Orion, Slate, New England Review (32.2), Painted Bride Quarterly, Greensboro Review, Missouri Review, and Mudlark. McLarney earned her MFA from Warren Wilson’s MFA Program for Writers and has taught writing at the college. She is currently Assistant Poetry Professor at Oklahoma State University. This year, she received fellowships from The MacDowell Colony and the Bread Loaf and Sewanee Writers’ Conferences. Last year, she was awarded The Fellowship of Southern Writers’ George Garrett New Writing Award for Poetry, in 2011 her poems won Alligator Juniper’s National Poetry Prize, and in 2010 she was awarded the Joan Beebe Fellowship.

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