Laura-Gray Street

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Laura-Gray Street is an American poet.

Life

She graduated from Hollins University. She holds an M.A. from University of Virginia, and an M.F.A. from Warren Wilson College. She was assistant professor at Randolph College, and serves on the board of the Greater Lynchburg Environmental Network and the Central Virginia Land Conservancy. [1] [2] She is now an associate professor of English, directing the Creative Writing and Visiting Writers Series Program at Randolph College, originally known as 1891 in Randolph-Macon Woman's College in Lynchburg, Virginia.

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Her work has been published in The Colorado Review, Poecology, Poet Lore, Poetry Daily, Hawk & Handsaw, Many Mountains Moving, ISLE,Shenandoah, Meridian, Blackbird, the Notre Dame Review , Gargoyle, [3] The Greensboro Review, the Yalobusha Review, New Virginia Review.

She has been a fellow at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, writer-in-residence at the Artist House at St. Mary's College in Maryland, and the Garland Distinguished Fellow at the Hambidge Center for the Arts and Sciences. [4]

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References

  1. ↑ "Home". cvalc.org.
  2. ↑ "Randolph College - Meet the English Faculty". Randolphcollege.edu. Archived from the original on 2014-08-08. Retrieved 2014-07-28.
  3. ↑ Barbara Grosh. "Gargoyle: Issue 53". Gargoylemagazine.com. Archived from the original on 2015-09-24. Retrieved 2014-07-28.
  4. ↑ "Bio of Laura-Gray Street".
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