McMahon, Lynne

LYNNE MCMAHON is a graduate of the University of California, Irvine (B.A. 1978) and the University of Utah (Ph.D. 1982). She was twice winner of an Academy of American Poets Prize, at Irvine in 1978 and at Utah in 1981. Her chapbook, White Tablecloths, won the 1983 Riverstone International Chapbook Competition. McMahon is visiting professor of English at the University of Missouri-Columbia. She is married to Sherod Santos, who is also a Wesleyan poet.