Some of our advanced students and teachers performed in the Starkville/MSU Symphony Criss Christmas concert on Friday, Dec. 2. Pictured are Hope Bassett, Aidan Dunkelberg, Diane Ford, Charity James, and Patti Gildea.
Some of our advanced students and teachers performed in the Starkville/MSU Symphony Criss Christmas concert on Friday, Dec. 2. Pictured are Hope Bassett, Aidan Dunkelberg, Diane Ford, Charity James, and Patti Gildea.
I am a poet, translator, and professor of literature and creative writing at Mississippi University for Women, where I direct the Low-Residency MFA in Creative Writing, the undergraduate concentration in creative writing, and the Eudora Welty Writers' Symposium. I am Chair of the Department of Languages, Literature, and Philosophy, and I have published four collections of poetry, Tree Fall with Birdsong, Barrier Island Suite, Time Capsules, and Landscapes and Architectures, as well as a collection of translations of the Belgian poet Paul Snoek, Hercules, Richelieu, and Nostradamus, and the textbook A Writer's Craft: Multi-Genre Creative Writing. I was born and raised in Osage, Iowa, and have lived for over thirty years in Columbus, Mississippi, where my wife Kim and I let wildflowers grow in our yard to the delight of spring polinators and only some of our neighbors.