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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. 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)
Julie Bruck
is the author of two books of poetry, The End of Travel (Brick Books,
1999) and The Woman Downstairs (Brick, 1993). Her work has appeared in
Ms, Ploughshares, and The New Yorker. Her awards and
fellowships include two Gold Canadian National Magazine Awards. A former
Montrealer, she has taught at Concordia University and at writer’s
conferences in the U.S. She lives in San Francisco.
(Poet Laureate Award, Preliminary Judge)
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Jeanne Marie
Beaumont is the author of Placebo Effects, winner of the National
Poetry Series, and the forthcoming Curious Conduct (BOA Editions, 2004).
She is coeditor of The Poets' Grimm: 20th Century Poems from Grimm Fairy
Tales (Story Line, 2003), and has taught at The Frost Place, Rutgers
University, and the Unterberg Poetry Center of the 92nd Street Y in New York
City. (Poetry of Courage Award)
Steven Cramer is the author of four poetry collections: The Eye that
Desires to Look Upward (1987), The World Book (1992), Dialogue for
the Left and Right Hand (1997), and Goodbye to the Orchard (2004). His poems and criticism have appeared in The Atlantic
Monthly, The Nation, The New Republic, The Paris Review, Partisan Review,
Poetry, Triquarterly, and The POETRY Anthology.
Recipient of fellowships from the Massachusetts Artists Foundation and the
National Endowment for the Arts, he is Program Coordinator for the MFA program in creative writing at Lesley University in Cambridge, MA. (Joanna Catherine Scott Award)
Phebe Davidson is the award-winning author of ten collections of poetry.
Her newest book, Back to Square One, New & Selected Poems, distills
nearly 20 years of poetry. She teaches at the University of South Carolina at Aiken,
where she is the G.L. Toole Professor of English and a Carolina Trustee
Professor, as well as the editor of the Palanquin Poetry Press. (Katherine Kennedy McIntyre Light Verse Award)
Since The Great Frog Race (1997), Kristine O'Connell George has
earned honors and praise for her seven books including the Lee Bennett Hopkins
Poetry Award, IRA Promising Poet Award, CLCSC Myra Cohn Livingston Award,
Claudia Lewis Poetry Award, and the SCBWI Golden Kite Award. George has five new
titles under contract including Hummingbird Nest: A Journal of Poems
(Harcourt, 2004). George visits schools, speaks at national conferences, and has
taught children’s poetry for the UCLA Writer’s Program.
(Caldwell Nixon Jr. Award)
Judy Jordan's first book Carolina Ghost Woods won the 1999 Walt
Whitman Award, the 2000 Utah Book of the Year Award, the Thomas Wolfe Literary
Award, the Poetry Council of North Carolina's Oscar Arnold Young Award, and the
2000 National Book Critics Circle Award. Her second book, Sixty Cent Coffee
and A Quarter to Dance is forthcoming from LSU press. She is working on a third book of poetry,
tentatively titled A Hurt in His Heart, and on a memoir. She teaches at Southern Illinois
University at Carbondale.. (Thomas H. McDill Award)
Ann Lauterbach is the author of five collections of poetry: If in
Time: Selected Poems 1975-2000 (Penguin, 2001), On a Stair (1997), And
for Example (1994), Clamor (1991), Before Recollection (1987),
and Many Times, but Then (1979). She has received fellowships from the
Guggenheim Foundation, the Ingram Merrill Foundation, and the John D. and
Catherine C. MacArthur Foundation. Since 1991 she has taught at Bard College,
where she co-directs the Writing Division of the MFA program. (Lyman Haiku Award)
Janisse Ray is the author of Ecology of a Cracker Childhood (Milkweed
Editions, 1999), which won the Southeastern Booksellers’ Award for Nonfiction
1999, the Southern Environmental Law Center 2000 Award for Outstanding Writing
on the Southern Environment, and Southern Book Critics Circle Award for
Nonfiction 2000. Ray has published poems and essays in Audubon, Hope,
Natural History, Orion, and Sierra. Her
second book, Wild Card Quilt: Taking a Chance on Home, was published in 2003. Ray is
Visiting Southern Writer at the University of
Mississippi for 2003-2004.
(Mary Ruffin Poole Heritage Award)
Jennifer Woodruff Tait, Methodist Librarian at Drew University
(Madison, NJ), has published poems and essays in Weavings, Alive Now, The
Josiah Journal, Sacramental Life, and Perspectives. She
received an Award of Excellence for Poetry in the 1999 Associated Church Press
awards. Woodruff Tait is ordained in the United Methodist Church. She grew up in
the Midwest and currently resides in Chatham, NJ, with her husband. (Poetry of Love Award)
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