Nathaniel Mackey

Nathaniel Mackey
Nathaniel Mackey, photo by Gloria Graham during the video taping of Add-Verse, 2005
Born1947 (age 78–79)
Miami, Florida, United States
Alma materPrinceton University (BA)
Stanford University (PhD)
GenrePoetry, Fiction, Literary Criticism
Notable worksSplay Anthem
From a Broken Bottle Traces of Perfume Still Emanate
Notable awardsNational Book Award (2006)
Bollingen Prize (2015)

Nathaniel Mackey is an American poet, novelist, anthologist, literary critic and editor. He is the Reynolds Price Professor of Creative Writing at Duke University and a Chancellor of The Academy of American Poets. Mackey is currently teaching a poetry workshop at Duke University.

He has been editor and publisher of Hambone since 1982 and he won the National Book Award for Poetry in 2006. In 2014, he was awarded the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, and in 2015 he won Yale's Bollingen Prize for American Poetry.

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