Nathaniel Mackey

Nathaniel Mackey
Nathaniel Mackey, photo by Gloria Graham during the video taping of Add-Verse, 2005
Nathaniel Mackey, photo by Gloria Graham during the video taping of Add-Verse, 2005
Born1947
Miami, Florida, United States
Alma materPrinceton University;
Stanford University
GenrePoetry

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.[1] In 2014, he was awarded the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize,[2] and in 2015 he won Yale's Bollingen Prize for American Poetry.[3]

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