Marty McConnell

Director of Strategy & Innovation

Marty McConnell is a poet, educator, healer, and nonprofit professional based in Chicago. She is the author of “when they say you can’t go home again, what they mean is you were never there,” winner of the 2017 Michael Waters Poetry Prize. Her first full-length collection, “wine for a shotgun,” received the Silver Medal in the Independent Publishers Awards, and was a finalist for both the Audre Lorde Award and a Lambda Literary Award, and her first nonfiction work, “Gathering Voices: Creating a Community-Based Writing Workshop” was published by YesYes Books. She is the co-creator and co-editor of underbelly, a web site focused on the art and magic of poetry revision and her work has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies including Best American Poetry, Southern Humanities Review, Gulf Coast, and Indiana Review among others.