Maurice Manning (poet)

Maurice Manning
Born	1966 (age 57–58) Danville, Kentucky, U.S.
Occupation	Poet
Education	Earlham College (BA) University of Kentucky (MA) University of Alabama (MFA)
Period	Early 21st Century
Genre	Poetry
Notable works	The Common Man, Lawrence Booth's Book of Visions
Children	1

Maurice Manning (born 1966) is an American poet. His first collection of poems, Lawrence Booth's Book of Visions, was awarded the Yale Younger Poets Award, chosen by W.S. Merwin.^[1] Since then he has published four collections of poetry (with Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and Copper Canyon Press). He teaches English and Creative Writing at Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky, where he oversees the Judy Gaines Young Book Award, and is a member of the poetry faculty of the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers.^[2]