GCSU Creative Writing Program's Visiting Writers Series: Georgia Poet Laureate Chelsea Rathburn

Visiting Writer and Georgia Poet Laureate Chelsea Rathburn

Reading and Q&A with MFA Students Jonna Smith and Cas McKinney

Chelsea Rathburn is associate professor of English and Creative Writing at Mercer University and the Poet Laureate of Georgia. She is the author of three award-winning collections of poetry, most recently "Still Life with Mother and Knife," a New York Times “New & Noteworthy” selection published in 2019 by Louisiana State University Press. Named one of the “Books All Georgians Should Read” by the Georgia Center for the Book, "Still Life with Mother and Knife" received the 2020 Eric Hoffer Book Award in Poetry. Her previous full-length collections are "A Raft of Grief" (Autumn House Press, 2013), which won the 2012 Autumn House Prize, and "The Shifting Line" (U. of Evansville Press, 2005), which received the 2005 Richard Wilbur Award. Along with publishing individual poems in the nation’s top journals, including Poetry and the Atlantic, she has published personal essays in Creative Nonfiction and the Rumpus.