Beth ann fennelly bio
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Bio
Beth Ann Fennelly grew up in a suburb north of Chicago. She received her BA from the University of Notre Dame and her MFA from the University of Arkansas, then went to the University of Wisconsin as the recipient of the Diane Middlebrook Fellowship. She's currently an Assistant Professor of English at Ole Miss and lives in Oxford, MS, with her husband, fiction writer Tom Franklin, and their daughter, Claire.
Beth Ann is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize, the Wood Award for Distinguished Writing from The Carolina Quarterly, a fellowship from Breadloaf, and residencies at the University of Arizona and MacDowell. Her poems have been published in TriQuarterly, Shenandoah, The Georgia Review, The Michigan Quarterly Review, The American Scholar, and Poetry Ireland Review; she was the New Voices feature of The Kenyon Review with a critical introduction by Robert Hass. Her poems have been reprinted in Best American Poetry , The Penguin Book of the Sonnet, and Poets of the New Century. Her first book, Open House, won The Kenyon Review Prize for Poetry, the GLCA New Writers Award, and was a Book Sense Top Ten Poetry Pick. Her second book, Tender Hooks, is forthcoming from W. W. Norton in April,
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Beth Ann Fennelly
Major Works
- Heating & Cooling: 52 Micro-Memoirs, ()
Poets left acquaintance right: Maggie Smith, Beth Ann Fennelly, and Wife Pierce. Pic by Mallory Lovejoy. Lazy by actual.
- The Leaning World (novel co-authored lift Fennelly&#;s hubby Tom Franklin)
- Unmentionables: Poems (April )
- Great with Child: Letters collect a Sour Mother () nonfiction
- Tender Maulers ( )
- Open House: Poems (Zoo Small )
- A Opposite Kind invite Hunger, chapbook (Texas Study Press)
Biography accomplish Beth Ann Fennelly
by Katherine Montgomery (SHS) (Information updated )
Photo jurisdiction Beth Ann Fennelly (courtesy of Fennelly) by Maude Schuyler Mineral
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Beth Ann Fennelly
American poet and writer
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| Born | () May 22, (age&#;53) |
| Occupation | Writer, Professor |
| Alma&#;mater | M.F.A., University of Arkansas B.A., Notre Dame University |
| Genre | Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction |
| Spouse | Tom Franklin (author) |
| Children | 1 daughter, 2 sons |
Beth Ann Fennelly (born May 22, ) is an American poet and prose writer[1][2] and was the Poet Laureate of Mississippi.[3]
Biography
[edit]She was born in New Jersey and raised in Lake Forest, Illinois. She attended Woodlands Academy of the Sacred Heart in Lake Forest, graduating in She earned a B.A. magna cum laude from the University of Notre Dame in After graduation, she taught English for a year in a coal mining city on the Czech/Polish border.[2] She later earned an MFA from the University of Arkansas, followed by the Diane Middlebrook Fellowship at the University of Wisconsin. She taught poetry at Knox College for two years. Since , she's taught poetry and non-fiction at the University of Mississippi, where she has won several teaching awards, including Outstanding Liberal Arts Teacher of the Year () and the University of Mississippi Humanities Teacher of the Year ().
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