Janet Lacey McCann

Journals publishing Janet McCann’s work include Kansas Quarterly, Parnassus, Nimrod, Sou'wester, America, Christian Century, Christianity and Literature, New York Quarterly, Tendril, and others. A 1989 NEA Creative Writing Fellowship winner, she taught at Texas A&M University from 1969 until 2015 and is now a professor emerita. She has coedited anthologies with David Craig, Odd Angles of Heaven (1994), Place of Passage (2000), and Poems of Francis and Clare (2004). She has written three poetry books and six chapbooks. Her most recent poetry book is The Crone at the Casino (2014). She also has coauthored two textbooks and written a book on Wallace Stevens (Wallace Stevens: The Celestial Possible, 1996). She is a Catholic and lives in College Station, Texas, with her dog.