Discipline: Literature – poetry

Lynn McGee

Discipline: Literature – poetry
Region: Brooklyn, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 1994
More: www.lynnmcgee.com
Lynn McGee is the author of the poetry collection Tracks, forthcoming from Broadstone Books in 2018; Sober Cooking (Spuyten Duyvil Press, 2016), and two award-winning poetry chapbooks: Heirloom Bulldog (Bright Hill Press, 2015) and Bonanza (Slapering Hol Press, 1996). Her poems have appeared in many journals, including Cordella Literary Magazine, the Potomac Review, The American Poetry Review, Southern Poetry Review, Ontario Review, Phoebe, Storyscape, In From the Margin, Literary Mama, Painted Bride Quarterly, The New Guard (one poem a finalist and one a semi-finalist in the Knightville Contest judged by Donald Hall), The Sun magazine, Laurel Review and others. Her poems have appeared in anthologies including Like Light, 25 years of Poetry & Prose by Nright hill Poets & Writers and Rabbit Ears: TV Poems. Lynn earned an M.F.A. in poetry at Columbia University, where she held teaching and merit fellowships. She is also the winner of the Judith's Room Award, and taught freshman writing at private and public colleges (George Washington University, Columbia University, Southern Methodist University, Brooklyn College/CUNY and others) as well as having led poetry workshops in public schools in New York City as an artist-in-residence with Teachers and Writers Collaborative.

Studios

Schelling

Lynn McGee worked in the Schelling studio.

Marian MacDowell funded construction of this studio the year that the organization was established and the first artists arrived for residency. It was called Bark Studio until 1933, when it was renamed in honor of Ernest Schelling, a composer, pianist, and orchestral leader who served as president of what was then called the Edward MacDowell…

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