 | Novelist, Melanie Sumner, is a native of Rome, GA, where she once again
resides after living elsewhere for most of her adult life. She is the
author of two novels, the most recent of which is The School of Beauty
and Charm (2000). She teaches fiction writing at Shorter and Berry
Colleges. Southern Scribe review of The School of Beauty and Charm | |
 | June Spence served as Berry College's writer-in-residence for the
1999-2000 academic year. A native of Raleigh, N.C., she has published a
short story collection, Missing Women and Others, and is currently
working on a novel. She previously served as writer-in-residence at
Bowling Green State University where she received her master of fine
arts degree in creative writing. She has taught creative writing classes
and judged the Emerging Writers' Contest for fiction writers at the
SWWC. |
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 | Mary Hood is a native of Georgia and the author of two collections of
short stories: How Far She Went, which won the Flannery O'Connor Award
for fiction, and And Venus Is Blue, winner of the Townsend Award. Her
novel, Familiar Heat, was published in 1996. Hood received the the
Whiting Award in 1994. She has taught creative writing at the University
of Georgia and was the John and Renee Grisham
Southern-Writer-In-Residence at the University of Mississippi in 1996.
Mary's contributions to Berry College and its students cannot be
overstated. She taught a course in Book Arts in the fall of 1997 and Creative
Writing in the spring of 1998. In addition, she taught a writing course in the
Senior College (students over 55) for Continuing Education, which proved
so popular that her students convinced her to continue the course
beyond the original six weeks.
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| Karen McElmurray, the 2001-2002 Berry College Writer-in-Residence, is
the author of a novel,Strange Birds in the Tree of Heaven (Hill Street
Press, 1999). The novel received the 2001 Lillie D. Chaffin Award for
Appalachian Writing and has been called "a story about the human heart
and about how salvation can come from the human experience of love"
(Chicago Tribune). Her work has also received numerous awards including
grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the North Carolina Arts
Council, and the Kentucky Foundation for Women. Novelist Lee Smith has
called her forthcoming memoir, Mother of the Disappeared,
"an enlightening and redemptive work of art." She is represented by
Patricia Moosbrugger Literary Agency, and a portion of her
novel-in-progress, Black Dog, is also forthcoming in Blue Mesa. During
2002-2003, McElmurray was Visiting Assistant Professor at Berry, where
she also served as part of the Executive Committee for the Southern
Women Writer's Conference. In Fall 2003, she joined the
Creative Writing Faculty at Georgia College and State University. |
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