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Irene McKinney, West Virginia

Irene McKinney is the author of four books of poetry: The Six O'Clock Mine Report; Quick Fire and Slow Fire; The Wasps at the Blue Hexagons; and The Girl With a Stone in Her Lap. She is the recipient of an NEA fellowship in poetry and a West Virginia Commission on the Arts fellowship in poetry, and has held fellowships at MacDowell Colony, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and Blue Mountain. McKinney currently teaches at West Virginia Wesleyan College, and has been writer in residence at Western Washington University and the University of New Mexico.

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