Carolyn Elkins is the author of two books of poetry, Daedalus Rising from Emrys Press (2002) and Coriolis Forces, which won the Palanquin Press Chapbook Contest in 2000. She has published over 100 poems in journals in the United States and abroad, including Asheville Poetry Review, Birmingham Poetry Review, Psychopoetica, Red Rock Review, and American Studies in Denmark. Elkins is a founding editor of Ruby Shoes Press. She has taught poetry workshops for the Mississippi Community College Creative Writing Association, the Mississippi Literary Competition, the Mississippi Poetry Society, and the Poetry Society of Tennessee. She is Assistant Professor of English at Delta State University in Cleveland, Mississippi. She received her B.A. in English from Wells College and the M.A. in English from the University of Tennessee in Knoxville.

Lawrence Hetrick has taught creative writing and English at University of the South, Miami-Dade Community College, and the University of Florida. He is currently on the faculty of Georgia Perimeter College in Atlanta, where he serves as editor of The Chattahoochee Review, recent winner of a Governor's Award in the Humanities. His poetry and book reviews have appeared recently in Terrain, Aethlon, Sewanee Review, Southwest Review, New Virginia Review, Southern Humanities Review, American Book Review, and others.

Richard Jackson is the author of seven books of poems, most recently Unauthorized Autobiography: New and Selected Poems (Ashland Poetry press, 2003), Heartwall (UMass, 2000 Juniper Prize), Svetovi Narazen (a selection in Slovene, 2001), Heart's Bridge (Aureole, U. Toledo, 1999), Alive All Day (Cleveland State Prize, 1992), Worlds Apart, winner of the Alabama Prize (1987, rpt.1989), and Part of the Story (Grove, 1983). In 2003 Jackson won his fifth Pushcart Prize appearance, and he previously has appeared in Best American Poems 1997 and several other anthologies. He teaches both in the English and University Honors departments at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, where he directs the Meacham Writers' Conference and is a member of the Council of Scholars.

The WRITERS IN THE LIBRARY series is sponsored by the University of Tennessee Libraries and the Creative Writing Program of the UT English Department. For further information, contact: Steven Harris, English Literature Librarian, UT Libraries (974-8693 or Steven-Harris@utk.edu), or Patricia Waters, Writer in Residence, UT Libraries (974-3004 or waters@aztec.lib.utk.edu).

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WRITERS IN THE LIBRARY
Schedule for 2003-2004

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