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Fred Chappell,
North Carolina Poet Laureate from 1997 through 2002, has taught English
at UNC-Greensboro for almost 40 years. He has published 25 books of poetry,
fiction, and criticism. His numerous awards and prizes include The North
Carolina Award in Literature, the Roanoke-Chowan Poetry Award (six times),
the Prix de Meilleur des Lettres Etrangers from the Academie
Francaise, and the Sir Walter Raleigh Prize.
(Poet Laureate Award, Final Judge)
John Hildebidle
has taught English in a public junior high, at Harvard University, and now
at MIT. He has published books on Thoreau and on Irish fiction, a collection
of short stories, and three volumes of verse: The Old Chore
(Alice James); One Sleep, One Waking (Wyndham Hall); and
Defining Absence (Salmon Publishing). A fourth collection of poems,
Signs, Translations, is forthcoming from Salmon in 2004.
(Poet Laureate Award, Preliminary Judge)
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Barbara Crooker
has published poems in magazines such as Yankee, The Christian
Science Monitor, and The Denver Quarterly; and in several
anthologies, including Boomer Girls (University of Iowa Press)
and Worlds in their Words (Prentice Hall). She has received three
Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Creative Writing Fellowships and won the
New Millennium Writings Y2K Poetry Contest.
(Caldwell Nixon Jr. Award)
Beth Ann Fennelly’s
poetry has appeared in TriQuarterly, Shenandoah, American
Scholar, Michigan Quarterly, and Kenyon Review; and has
been anthologized in The Pushcart Prize 2001, The Penguin Book of
the Sonnet, and Best American Poetry 1996. Her book Open
House won The Kenyon Review Prize for a First Book. Her website
is www.bethannfennelly.com.
(Katherine Kennedy McIntyre Light Verse Award)
David Graham
is Professor of English at Ripon College. His six collections of poetry include
Second Wind (TexasTech), Stutter Monk (Flume), and Magic
Shows (Cleveland State U.). He has been Poet in Residence at The Frost Place
in Franconia, NH. With Kate Sontag, he co-edited the essay anthology After
Confession: Poetry as Autobiography (Graywolf).
(American Heritage Award)
Allison Joseph
teaches creative writing at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. Her books
include In Every Seam (U. of Pittsburgh Press, 1997) and Imitation
of Life (Carnegie Mellon U. Press, 2003), and her poetry is on the CD
Our Souls Have Grown Deep Like the Rivers: Black Poets Read Their Work.
She is also editor of Crab Orchard Review.
(Poetry of Love Award)
Susan Ludvigson’s
most recent collection is Sweet Confluence: New and Selected Poems
(LSU Press, 2001). Her work appears regularly in The Ohio Review,
The Southern Review, and The Georgia Review. A recipient
of NEA, Guggenheim, and Fulbright grants, she is a professor of creative
writing at Winthrop University, Rock Hill, South Carolina.
(Thomas H. McDill Award)
Suzanne Noguere’s
poems have appeared in Poetry, The Nation, and The
Literary Review; and in four anthologies, including A Formal Feeling
Comes: Poems in Form by Contemporary Women. Her book Whirling Round
the Sun was listed as one of the ten best poetry books of the year in
the Ink/New Times Los Angeles Book Supplement.
(Joanna Catherine Scott Award)
Virginia Thayer
has published three books of poetry, the latest entitled Gloves and
Other Lost Things. Her play, The Silent Also Speak, was
recently performed, and her drawings, collages and watercolors have been
featured in several art exhibits. She was married 33 years, and has three
children and one grandchild. She lives near Boston, Massachusetts.
(Lyman Haiku Award)
Eric Trethewey
Professor of English at Hollins University, has published four collections
of poetry: In the Traces; Dreaming of Rivers; Evening
Knowledge (winner of the Virginia Poetry Prize); and The Long Road
Home. His poems, stories, essays and reviews have appeared in numerous
journals, including The Atlantic Monthly, Canadian Literature,
Poetry, Ploughshares, Southern Review, Yale
Review, New Letters, and Paris Review.
(Poetry of Courage Award)
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