Max Garland

Max Garland is a poet and academic.

Life
Garland left a 10-year career as a letter carrier to pursue a career in literature. He earned an M.F.A. in creative writing from the University of Iowa in 1989.

He began teaching in 1990. He lives in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, where he is a professor of English at the Univerity of Wisconsin - Eau Claire.

Garland's work has appeared in several publications including Poetry, New England Review, Georgia Review, Ploughshares, Crazy Horse, Chicago Review, Gettysburg Review, Prairie Schooner and Poet and Critic. Max Garland, Wikipedia, May 29, 2016, Wikimedia Foundation. Web, Sep. 17, 2016.

Recognition
His first collection, The Postal Confessions, earned the prestigious Juniper Prize for Poetry. His second, Hunger Wide as Heaven, won an award from the Cleveland State University Poetry Center.

He served as Poet Laureate of Wisconsin in 2013-2014.