Louis McNeill begin her publishing career selling short poems to the Saturday Evening Post. In 1931 her first collection, Mountain White, was published. She went on to publish six other collections. In the 1980s McNeill's literary reputation was re-established by the poet Maggie Anderson, who edited McNeill's memoir for the University of Pittsburgh Press, as well as a new and selected poems in 1991. In 1979 then-governor Jay Rockefeller named her West Virginia's poet laureate.
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