Laura S. McKee

Laura S. McKee (L.S. McKee) is Coordinator of Writing Across the Curriculum in the English Department at UGA. She works with the Writing Intensive Program and the Willis Center for Writing to support program and curricular initiatives, especially those focused on enhancing STEM and interdisciplinary writing in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences and across campus. She teaches ENGL 3860W: Science Writing for General Audiences and WIPP 7001: Pedagogy of Writing in the Disciplines.

​She holds an MFA from the University of Maryland and was a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford University. Her debut collection of poetry, Creature, Wing, Heart, Machine, winner of the 2022 Zone 3 Press First Book Award in Poetry and selected by Tiana Clark, was published in Fall 2023.

She has taught at several institutions, most recently MIT, where she was a lecturer in the Writing, Rhetoric, and Professional Communication Program (WRAP) and taught writing in collaboration with STEM faculty. At the University of West Georgia, she co-directed the STEAM composition program, a first-year writing collaboration between the English Department and the College of Science and Mathematics, from 2014-2018.