L.S. McKee is the author of Creature, Wing, Heart, Machine. She holds an MFA from the University of Maryland and was a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford University.
She received a 2022 Mass Cultural Council Artist Fellowship Grant in poetry and a St. Botolph Club Foundation Emerging Artist Award in Literature. She has also received scholarships from the Bread Loaf and Sewanee Writers' Conferences and has held residencies at The Hambidge Center, the Virginia Center for Creative Arts, and Vermont Studio Center.
As an educator, she specializes in creative writing and literature; STEAM (STEM + Arts/Humanities) writing curriculum; pedagogical collaboration; and writing program administration. She has taught at several institutions, including MIT, where she taught writing across subjects, including Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science, and Robotics. Currently, she is Coordinator of Writing Across the Curriculum at the University of Georgia, where she works with a number of writing programs and initiatives including The Writing Intensive Program and The Willis Center for Writing. At UGA, she teaches Literature and the Natural World, Science Writing for General Audiences, and Pedagogy of Writing in the Disciplines. She grew up in East Tennessee and now lives in Athens, Georgia with her family.
She received a 2022 Mass Cultural Council Artist Fellowship Grant in poetry and a St. Botolph Club Foundation Emerging Artist Award in Literature. She has also received scholarships from the Bread Loaf and Sewanee Writers' Conferences and has held residencies at The Hambidge Center, the Virginia Center for Creative Arts, and Vermont Studio Center.
As an educator, she specializes in creative writing and literature; STEAM (STEM + Arts/Humanities) writing curriculum; pedagogical collaboration; and writing program administration. She has taught at several institutions, including MIT, where she taught writing across subjects, including Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science, and Robotics. Currently, she is Coordinator of Writing Across the Curriculum at the University of Georgia, where she works with a number of writing programs and initiatives including The Writing Intensive Program and The Willis Center for Writing. At UGA, she teaches Literature and the Natural World, Science Writing for General Audiences, and Pedagogy of Writing in the Disciplines. She grew up in East Tennessee and now lives in Athens, Georgia with her family.