James McKean

James McKean earned his MFA from the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop and his PhD from the University of Iowa. He has published three books of poems, Headlong, Tree of Heaven, and We Are the Bus; and a book of essays, Home Stand: Growing Up in Sports. A professor emeritus at Mount Mercy University in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, he still teaches for the Queens University low--residency MFA program in Charlotte, North Carolina.

James McKean earned his MFA from the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop and his PhD from the University of Iowa. He has published three books of poems, Headlong, Tree of Heaven, and We Are the Bus; and a book of essays, Home Stand: Growing Up in Sports. A professor emeritus at Mount Mercy University in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, he still teaches for the Queens University low--residency MFA program in Charlotte, North Carolina. See less