Wesley McNair is the author of more than twenty books, including the recent poetry collections Dwellers in the House of the Lord and The Lost Child: Ozark Poems, winner of the PEN New England Award for Literary Excellence in Poetry. He has been awarded, amongst other prizes, the Robert Frost Prize, the Theodore Roethke Prize, the Jane Kenyon Award for Outstanding Book, and the Sarah Josepha Hale Medal for distinguished contribution to the world of letters. McNair served as Maine Poet Laureate from 2011 to 2016.