Nathaniel Mackey is an
American poet
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novelist
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anthologist
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literary critic
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and
editor
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. He is the Reynolds Price Professor of Creative Writing at
Duke University and a Chancellor of
The Academy of American Poets. Mackey is currently teaching a poetry workshop at
Duke University.
He has been editor and publisher of ''
Hambone'' since 1982 and he won the
National Book Award for Poetry
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[ In 2014, he was awarded the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, and in 2015 he won Yale's Bollingen Prize for American Poetry.][
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Biography
Nathaniel Mackey was born in 1947 in Miami, Florida and moved to California at age three when his parents split. As a teen, he started listening to ja