Nathaniel Mackey

Nathaniel Mackey is the author of six books of poetry, the most recent of which is Blue Fasa; an ongoing prose work, From a Broken Bottle Traces of Perfume Still Emanate, whose fifth and most recent volume is Late Arcade; and two books of criticism, the most recent of which is Paracritical Hinge: Essays, Talks, Notes, Interviews. His awards include the 2006 National Book Award for Poetry, the 2008 Stephen Henderson Award from the African American Literature and Culture Society, the 2015 Bollingen Prize for Poetry and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He is the Reynolds Price Professor of Creative Writing at Duke University.