Paula McLain received her MFA in poetry from the University of Michigan in 1996. Since then, she has been a work-study scholar at Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference, a resident at Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony, and the Ucross Foundation, and a recipient of a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. Her first book of poetry, Less of Her, was published in 1999 by New Issues Press and won a publication grant from the Greenwall Fund of the Academy of American Poets. Individual poems have appeared in numerous literary journals and in the anthology American Poetry: The Next Generation. Little, Brown and Co. published her memoir, Like Family: Growing Up In Other People’s Houses, in 2003. She teaches in the low-residency program in poetry at New England College, and lives in Ohio.

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