Lynn McGee is the author of the poetry collections Tracks (Broadstone Books, 2019); Sober Cooking (Spuyten Duyvil Press, 2016), and two award-winning poetry chapbooks: Heirloom Bulldog (Bright Hill Press, 2015) and Bonanza (Slapering Hol Press, 1997).

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Starting Over in Sunset Park, Lynn McGee's children's book co-written with José Pelauz and illustrated by Bianca Diaz, was released in Spring 2021 from Tilbury House Publishers, distributed by Norton.

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Recent poetry publications include Naugatuck River Review, Sugar House Review, Lascaux Review, The Atlanta Review, Atticus Review, Tampa Review, Sugar House Review and the anthology I Wanna Be Loved by You: Poems on Marilyn Monroe from Milk & Cake Press.

 

Ten poems from Lynn's series "Crush" were released sequentially in What Rough Beast, from Indolent Books in early 2020. 

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Lynn's audio collaborations with composer Bill Parod have appeared in the Atticus Review and The Night Heron Barks, and they continue to create audio works as a team.

 

Poems by Lynn McGee have also appeared recently in Upstreet, Lavender Review, Stonewall's Legacy (an anthology celebrating the 50-year anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising), The American Journal of Poetry, Cordella Literary Magazine, Potomac Review, The American Poetry Review, Southern Poetry Review, Storyscape, In From the Margin and The New Guard (one poem a finalist and one a semi-finalist in the Knightville Contest judged by Donald Hall).

 

Earlier publications include Literary Mama, Painted Bride Quarterly, Ontario Review, Phoebe, Sun magazine, Laurel Review and others. Her poems have also appeared in anthologies including Like Light, 25 years of Poetry & Prose by Bright Hill Poets & Writers and Rabbit Ears: TV Poems. 

 

Lynn earned an MFA in Poetry at Columbia University, where she held teaching and merit fellowships. She serves on the advisory committee of Slapering Hol Press of the Hudson Valley Writers Center and co-curates the Lunar Walk Poetry Series with Gerry LaFemina, Bryn Dodsen and Madeleine Barnes. She also founded and co-curates with Susana H. Case, Sandy Yannone and Carolyne Wright, the W-E (West-East) Bicoastal Poets of the Pandemic and Beyond series which features writers from both coasts and an audience that spans many regions of the country.

 

Awarded a MacDowell fellowship, Lynn was a winner of the Judith's Room Emerging Writers Award in NYC, and taught writing at private and public colleges (George Washington University, Columbia University, Southern Methodist University, Brooklyn College/CUNY and others) as well as having led poetry workshops in New York City public schools through Teachers and Writers Collaborative and teaching adults in CUNY literacy programs.

 

A 2021 finalist for the The Hilary Tham Capital Collection (Word Works) manuscript contest for THE TV IN THE OTHER ROOM and 2019 quarterfinalist for the Codhill Press manuscript contest, Lynn was also a 2015 Nominee for the Best of the Net award, a nominee for the McGovern Prize, twice a nominee for the Pushcart Prize, and a semi-finalist for the Dana Award. She is a recipient of the NYC Literacy Center's Recognition Award for her work in adult literacy, and received the Heart of the Center Award from the LGBT Community Center in New York City for starting, and teaching on donated time for a year, their first GED-prep class. 

 

Today Lynn McGee is a communications manager at Borough of Manhattan Community College, The City University of New York. She lives in the Bronx, New York with her dog Josie, a Black Mouth Cur rescued from Florida via a shelter in Connecticut.