Nathaniel Mackey is Reynolds Price Professor of English at Duke University. He is the author of five books of poetry, the most recent of which are Splay Anthem (New Directions, 2006) and Nod House (New Directions, 2011); an ongoing prose work, From a Broken Bottle Traces of Perfume Still Emanate, whose fourth and most recent volume is Bass Cathedral (New Directions, 2008); and two books of criticism, the most recent of which isParacritical Hinge: Essays, Talks, Notes, Interviews (University of Wisconsin Press, 2005). His awards and honors include a Whiting Writer’s Award in 1993, election to the Board of Chancellors of the Academy of American Poets in 2001, the National Book Award in poetry for Splay Anthem in 2006, and a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2010. He lives in Durham, North Carolina, and teaches at Duke University.
