M. B. McLatchey

M. B. McLatchey is a poet and writer living, writing, and teaching in Florida. She is Professor of Humanities at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Chancellor for the Florida State Poets Association, Poet Laureate of Florida's Volusia County, Arts Ambassador for the Atlantic Center for the Arts, U.S. Ambassador to the HundrED global foundation for innovation in education, poetry reader for the Miami based journal SWWIM, producer of a video poetry series, and author of six books. She was awarded the 2011 American Poet Prize by The American Poetry Journal and was a 2015 Poet Laureate nominee for the state of Florida.

Her debut poetry collection The Lame God was awarded First Place in the 16th Annual May Swenson Poetry Award by Utah State University Press in 2013. In 2014 she was awarded the FLP Chapbook Prize by Finishing Line Press for her poetry collection Advantages of Believing. Her latest poetry collection Smiling at the Executioner is available from Kelsay Books.