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WALT MCDONALD
(PhD, Iowa) was an Air Force pilot, taught
at the Air Force Academy, and served as Texas Poet Laureate in 2001. He
retired in 2002 as Paul Whitfield Horn Professor of English and Poet in
Residence at Texas Tech University. Native Texans, Walt and Carol have
three children and seven grandchildren. Walt has twenty collections of
poems and a book of fiction, including Climbing the Divide (U of Notre
Dame Press, 2003), Great Lonely Places of the Texas Plains (Texas Tech
University Press, October 2003 — Walt's poems paired with color photos by
Texas State Photographer Wyman Meinzer), All Occasions (Notre Dame),
Blessings the Body Gave (Ohio State), Counting Survivors (Pittsburgh),
Night Landings (Harper & Row), and After the Noise of Saigon
(Massachusetts). He has published more than 2,300 poems in journals and
collections, including American Poetry Review, The American Scholar, The
Atlantic Monthly, The Cresset, First Things, JAMA: The Journal of the
American Medical Association, The Georgia Review, London Review of
Books, The Nation, New York Review of Books, The Paris Review, Poetry,
Prairie Schooner, The Sewanee Review, The Southern Review, and
TriQuarterly. He has received six awards from the Texas Institute of
Letters, including the Lon Tinkle Memorial Award for Excellence
Sustained Throughout a Career. Four books won the Western Heritage Award
from the National Cowboy Hall of Fame, including Whatever the Wind
Delivers: Celebrating West Texas and the Near Southwest (Texas Tech
University Press, 1999) — Walt's poems, archival photos selected by
Janet Neugebauer, and a Foreword by Laura Bush, when she was First Lady
of Texas. Other awards include Texas Tech's Distinguished Alumnus Award;
two NEA Fellowships; and 1992 Texas Professor of the Year (awarded by
CASE, the Council for Advancement and Support of Education).
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