Daylight Losing Time

Susan McLean grew up in Oxon Hill, Maryland, received a B.A. from Harvard University and a PhD from Rutgers University-New Brunswick, and taught English for thirty years at Southwest Minnesota State University in Marshall, Minnesota. She has published two poetry books: The Whetstone Misses the Knife (Story Line, 2014), which won the Donald Justice Poetry Prize, and The Best Disguise (University of Evansville Press, 2009), which won the Richard Wilbur Award. She has also published one poetry chapbook, Holding Patterns (Finishing Line, 2006), and a book of translations of over 500 poems by the Latin poet Martial, Selected Epigrams (University of Wisconsin Press, 2014), which was a finalist for the PEN Center USA Translation Award. Her poems and translations of poems from French, German, and Latin have appeared in Hunger Mountain, Arion, Subtropics, Literary Imagination, Transference, and elsewhere. She lives in Iowa City, Iowa, with John Finamore.