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Fred Chappell,
North Carolina Poet Laureate from 1997 through 2002, has taught English at the University
of North Carolina at 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)
Ann Fisher-Wirth
is the author of Blue Window (Archer Books, 2003) and The Trinket Poems,
which was runner-up in the 2003 Quentin R. Howard Poetry Chapbook Competition. In 2004
she received the Poetry Award from the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters, and
a Poetry Fellowship from the Mississippi Arts Commission. A Professor of English at
the University of Mississippi, Ann has taught as a senior Fulbright lecturer at the
University of Fribourg, Switzerland; and as a Fulbright Distinguished Chair at Uppsala
University, Sweden.
(Poet Laureate Award, Preliminary Judge)
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Michelle Boisseau
has published three books of poetry: Trembling Air (University of Arkansas Press, 2003);
Understory (Northeastern University Press, 1996), winner of the Samuel French Morse
Poetry Award; and No Private Life (Vanderbilt University Press, 1990). She is author
of the college text Writing Poems; has received grants from the National Endowment
for the Arts and the Kentucky Arts Council; and has been awarded the Lucille Medwick Award
and the Cecil Hemley Award from the Poetry Society of America. She is a professor of English
at the University of Missouri at Kansas City.
(Poetry of Love Award)
Debbie Daniel
was the South Carolina Arts Commission Fellow in Poetry in 1993-94 and was named first
alternate for 2004. She has won fellowships in both poetry and fiction from the South
Carolina Academy of Authors and is a six-time South Carolina Fiction Project winner.
She has won numerous prizes from the Poetry Society of South Carolina as well as the
Guy Owen Prize from the Southern Poetry Review. Her work has appeared in
Tar River, Gargoyle, Southern Poetry Review, The Charleston Post
and Courier, The State Newspaper, and Inheritance.
(Katherine Kennedy McIntyre Light Verse Award)
Claudia Emerson's
first book of poems, Pharaoh, Pharaoh (1997), was published as part of the Louisiana
State University Press series Southern Messenger Poets. Pinion, An Elegy (2002) and
Late Wife (forthcoming) are also part of the series. She has been awarded fellowships
from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Virginia Commission for the Arts. She earned
her MFA at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, where she was poetry editor for
The Greensboro Review. She is Associate Professor of English at Mary Washington College
in Fredericksburg, Virginia.
(Mary Ruffin Poole Heritage Award)
Rhina Espaillat
is the author of seven collections of poetry, most recently The Shadow I Dress In
(David Robert Books, 2004), winner of the Stanzas Prize. Other collections include:
Where Horizons Go (Truman State University Press, 1998), winner of the T. S. Eliot
Prize; and Rehearsing Absence (University of Evansville Press, 2001), recipient of
the Richard Wilbur Award. Originally from the Dominican Republic, she writes poetry in both
English and her native Spanish. Her poems have appeared in The Lyric, Poetry,
Sparrow, Orbis, The Formalist, and The American Scholar.
She lives with her husband in Newburyport, Massachusetts, where she directs the Powow River
Poets.
(Joanna Catherine Scott Award)
James Harms
is the author of four books of poetry from Carnegie Mellon University Press:
Freeways and Aqueducts (2004), Quarters (2001), The Joy Addict (1998),
and Modern Ocean (1992); as well as a limited edition, letterpress volume, East
of Avalon (Caddis Case Press, 2000). He has received fellowships from John Ciardi,
Bread Loaf, the West Virginia Commission on the Arts, and the Pennsylvania Council on the
Arts, as well as two Pushcart Prizes and the Academy of American Poets Prize. He lives with
his family in Morgantown, West Virginia, where he directs the creative writing program at
West Virginia University and the West Virginia Writers' Workshop.
(Lyman Haiku Award)
Bob Hicok's
most recent book is Insomnia Diary (University of Pittsburgh, 2004). His other
books include: Animal Soul (Invisible Cities Press, 2001), a finalist for the
National Book Critics Circle Award; The Legend of Light (University of Wisconsin,
1995), winner of the Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry; and Plus Shipping: Poems (Boa
Editions, 1998). He is an Associate Professor on the MFA faculty at VPI in Blacksburg,
Virginia.
(Thomas H. McDill Award)
Lee Bennett Hopkins
is the author of several books of poetry for children, including A Pet for Me;
Good Books, Good Times; Good Rhymes, Good Times; Hoofbeats, Claws
& Rippled Fins; Lives: Poems About Famous Americans; Pass the Poetry,
Please!; Sports! Sports! Sports!; Surprises; and Weather: Poems
for All Seasons. His awards and honors include the University of Southern
Mississippi Medallion for “lasting contributions to children's literature,” the
Keystone State Author of the Year Award, four American Library Association Notable
Book Awards, the Christopher Award, and a Golden Kite Honor Award.
(Caldwell Nixon Jr. Award; poems for children 2-12)
Sherod Santos
is the author of five books of poetry: The Perishing (W.W. Norton, 2003), The
Pilot Star Elegies (W. W. Norton, 1999), The City of Women (W. W. Norton, 1993),
The Southern Reaches (Wesleyan, 1989), and Accidental Weather (Doubleday, 1982);
and a book of literary essays, A Poetry of Two Minds (University of Georgia Press,
2000). His awards include the Theodore Roethke Poetry Prize, the Delmore Schwartz Memorial
Award, the Discovery/The Nation Award, the Oscar Blumenthal Prize from Poetry magazine, and
two Pushcart Prizes. Recipient of Ingram Merrill and Guggenheim fellowships and awards from
both the National Endowment for the Arts and the American Academy of Arts and Letters, he is
a professor of English at the University of Missouri, Columbia.
(Poetry of Courage Award)
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