Rose McLarney is the author of two poetry collections: Its Day Being Gone, selected by Robert Wrigley winner of the 2014 National Poetry Series, and The Always Broken Plates of Mountains. A Literary Field Guide to Southern Appalachia, which she coedited, is forthcoming from the University of Georgia Press. The recipient of the Chaffin Award for Achievement in Appalachian Writing. her work has appeared in The Kenyon Review, The Southern Review, New England Review, Prairie Schooner, and many other journals. McLarney is associate professor of creative writing at Auburn University and coeditor in chief of the Southern Humanities Review.