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ELIZABETH SEYDEL MORGAN
Elizabeth Seydel Morgan has published four books of poetry with Louisiana State University Press, most recently, Without a Philosophy, winner of the L.E. Philabaum Poetry Award. Her poetry has appeared in many anthologies, including Poetry Daily and Billy Collins' Poetry 180, as well as periodicals such as Poetry, Southern Review, Georgia Review, Iowa Review and The Virginia Quarterly Review. Online, her work has appeared in Cortland Review, Blackbird and Poetry Daily. Morgan has also written short stories honored by awards from The VQR and Southern Review, a screenplay that won the Governor's Award at the Virginia Film Festival, and a translation of Euripides' Electra for the Penn Greek Drama Series, University of Pennsylvania Press. Morgan studied creative writing with Louis D. Rubin, Jr., at Hollins College, and poetry writing with Dave Smith for her MFA at Virginia Commonwealth University. She initiated the creative writing courses at St. Catherine's and St. Christopher's school, which she taught for twenty years. She has also taught poetry writing at University of Richmond, Washington and Lee University, Randolph Macon Women's College, Virginia Correctional Center for Women and Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Studio School. Morgan received an NEH grant to study at Harvard Summer Seminars with Helen Vendler, and eight fellowships for residencies at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She was Louis D. Rubin Writer-in-Residence at Hollins University in 2007, and in 2008 she will teach in France and at Virginia Commonwealth University. She is currently past-president of the Richmond Public Library Foundation. |
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RON SMITH
Ron Smith is the author of Running Again in Hollywood Cemetery, runner-up for the National Poetry Series Open Competition and the Samuel French Morse Prize, and subsequently published by University Presses of Florida. His book Moon Road is forthcoming from Louisiana State University Press. His poems have appeared in many periodicals, including The Nation, Kenyon Review, New England Review, and in anthologies from Wesleyan University Press, Time-Life Books, University of Virginia Press, University of Georgia Press, University of Illinois Press, and elsewhere. His essay-reviews have appeared in The Kenyon Review and other magazines and reference works, most recently in The Georgia Review, Blackbird, and H-Arete. He is the regular poetry reviewer for The Richmond Times-Dispatch. Smith, a native of Savannah, Georgia, moved to Richmond, Virginia, to play college football; a number of his poems deal with the benefits, costs, values, and spectacle of sports. He holds degrees (B.A., M.A., M.H., M.F.A.) from University of Richmond and Virginia Commonwealth University in philosophy, English, general humanities, and creative writing. He has also studied creative writing at Bennington College in Vermont, British drama at Worcester College, Oxford University, and Renaissance and modern culture and literature at the Ezra Pound Center for Literature in Merano, Italy. His awards and honors include the Theodore Roethke Poetry Prize, the Guy Owen Poetry Prize, and a Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Fellowship. He travels as often as possible, especially in the countries bordering the Mediterranean. His poems set in Israel include "Yair Shows Us the Holy Land" and "In the Old City," both published in 1997. In the 21st century his poems set in England, Greece, and especially Italy have appeared in Ascent, The Southern Review, The Georgia Review, and elsewhere. He has taught creative writing (poetry, fiction, drama), 20th century American poetry, and the life and works of Edgar Allan Poe at Mary Washington College, Virginia Commonwealth University, and University of Richmond. He is a former President of the Poetry Society of Virginia and is a Trustee for the Edgar Allan Poe Museum and a member of the Board of Directors for James River Writers. Ron Smith is the first-ever Writer-in-Residence at St. Christopher's School (founded in 1911). |
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DONALD E. SELBY JR.
Don Selby is President of The Daily Poetry Association and Co-Editor of Poetry Daily, the DPA's principal publication. The mission of The Daily Poetry Association and Poetry Daily is to help make contemporary poetry part of everyday life by making it easier for people to discover new poets and by making it easier for poets and publishers to bring news of their work to more people. Don started Poetry Daily with co-founders Diane Boller and Rob Anderson in 1997, following a 20-year career in the law publishing industry. He has served on grant and award panels for the National Endowment for the Arts, the Virginia Commission for the Arts, and the Library of Virginia Literary Awards. He is a graduate of Swarthmore College and the University of Virginia School of Law. |
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