And Still I Want to Bring Life into This World

Rose McLarney’s collections of poetry are Colorfast, Forage, and Its Day Being Gone (Penguin, 2024, 2019, 2014) as well as The Always Broken Plates of Mountains (Four Way Books, 2012). She is coeditor of A Literary Field Guide to Southern Appalachia (University of Georgia Press, 2019) and the journal Southern Humanities Review. McLarney works as professor of creative writing at Auburn University.