Maureen N. McLane (born December 24, 1967) is an American poet, critic, and professor.
[1][2] McLane's first full-length poetry collection (Same Life: poems, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2008) was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award and The Publishing Triangle Audre Lorde Award.
[3] McLane achieved literary celebrity with the publication of her hybrid criticism-biography My Poets, which Paris Review editor Lorin Stein called "the survey course of my dreams.
[6] Writing in Bookforum, Parul Sehgal remarked that "To read McLane is to be reminded that the brain may be an organ, but the mind is a muscle.
Hers is a roving, amphibious intelligence; she's at home in the essay and the fragment, the polemic and the elegy.