Maureen N. McLane is a professor of English at New York University, a critic, and author of the poetry collections Same Life and World Enough, as well as My Poets—an experimental hybrid of memoir and criticism, which was a finalist for the 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award in Autobiography. A contributing editor at Boston Review, her articles on poetry, fiction, teaching, and sexuality have appeared in The New York Times, The Chicago Tribune, Boston Review, The Washington Post, American Poet, and on the Poetry Foundation website. More about this author >