Lynne McMahon is an American poet.

She graduated from University of Utah with a PhD in 1982. She teaches at University of Missouri,^[1] Her work has appeared in The New York Times Book Review, New Virginia Review, American Poetry Review, The Southern Review, The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, The Nation, Partisan Review, Poetry, The New Republic, Rolling Stone, The Yale Review, The New England Review and The Paris Review.

• Award for Literary Excellence from the American Academy of Arts and Letters
• 1995 Guggenheim Fellowship
• Ingram Merrill Foundation fellowship
• Missouri Arts Council grant

• "On Deciding To Fire My Chiropractor", Slate, Jan. 28, 2003
• "Birthday Poem", The Nation
• "Convalescence", The American Poetry Review Vol. 18 No. 3
• Faith (Wesleyan University Press, 1988) ISBN 978-0-8195-2133-0
• Devolution of the Nude (David R. Godine, 1993) ISBN 978-0-87923-955-8
• The House of Entertaining Science (David R. Godine, 1999) ISBN 978-1-56792-106-9
• Sentimental Standards (David R. Godine, 2004) ISBN 9781567922578