Reviews and Interviews: "There’s a friction in L.S. McKee’s debut poetry collection, Creature Wing Heart Machine (Zone 3 Press), between the visceral and the mechanical, the somatic and the cerebral, the body and the algorithm. She weaves whole worlds inside these tensions...Our guide through her techno-carnal landscape is Alva....We begin with poems about the molecular particularity of a breakup and expand out across vast natural landscapes, across space and time. The daily minutia of Alva’s life feels small and ubiquitous as an atom, the ache of her longing, deep enough to swallow the whole universe. --Beth Ward, ArtsATL
"At the heart of East Tennessee native L.S. McKee’s luminous debut collection, Creature, Wing, Heart, Machine, is a central figure named Alva. In her, McKee has found a compelling protagonist for these elegant, sensuous poems...Richly imagined and intimate in its observations, Alva’s world becomes a place we do not wish to leave." --Emily Choate, Chapter 16
"Creature, Wing, Heart, Machine, a work of persona in the voice of Alva, probes humanity and interconnectedness in a time of increasing technologization...Tiana Clark described the debut as “stunning . . . brimming with various desires.” --New England Review
"I admire the tenacity and vivacity of McKee’s poems, as we relate to that itch “to open the spam email because the subject says 'My dear' to connect to an “underworld of promises and surveillance.'" --Tiffany Troy, Tupelo Quarterly