Rose McLarney earned her MFA at Warren Wilson College. She is the author of Forage (Penguin, 2019); Its Day Being Gone (Penguin, 2015), winner of the National Poetry Series; and The Always Broken Plates of Mountains (Four Way Books, 2012). She is the coeditor of A Literary Field Guide to Southern Appalachia (University of Georgia Press, 2019). Her work has appeared in the Kenyon Review, the Southern Review, New England Review, Prairie Schooner, and many other publications.

McLarney’s awards include residencies at the MacDowell Colony and The Frost Place, the Thomas and Lillie D. Chaffin Award for Appalachian Writing, and the George Garrett New Writing Award from the Fellowship of Southern Writers. She has received fellowships from the Bread Loaf and Sewanee writers’ conferences. She is associate professor of Creative Writing at Auburn University and the co-editor-in-chief and poetry editor of the Southern Humanities Review.