Laura S. McKee

Laura S. McKee (L.S. McKee) is Coordinator of Writing Across the Curriculum. In this role, she teaches in the English department and works with the Writing Intensive Program and the Willis Center for Writing to support programmatic and curricular initiatives, especially those focused on writing pedagogy, STEM writing, and interdisciplinary collaboration. 

As a writer and teacher, she is passionate about exploring the connections between STEM and the Humanities, and her own writing explores these topics. She is the author of Creature, Wing, Heart, Machine, winner of the 2022 Zone 3 Press First Book Award in Poetry selected by Tiana Clark. She received her MFA from the University of Maryland and was a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford University. 

She has taught at several institutions, including MIT and the University of West Georgia, where she co-directed the STEM-to-STEAM composition program, a first-year writing collaboration between the English Department and the College of Science and Mathematics. 

Currently, at UGA, she teaches ENGL 3860W: Science Writing for General Audiences and WIPP 7001: Pedagogy of Writing in the Disciplines.