Jeff Hardin teaches at Columbia State Community College in Columbia, TN. He has authored two chapbooks, Deep in the Shallows and The Slow Hill Out, as well as one book, Fall Sanctuary, which won the Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize from Story Line Press. He has also been published in Mid-American Review, North Dakota Quarterly, and Ploughshares, among other prestigious literary journals.

Charlotte Pence teaches at Belmont University in Nashville, TN. She earned an MFA from Emerson College in 1998 and received the individual artist fellowship from the Tennessee Arts Commission in 2003. She has published a book, The Writer’s Path: Creative Exercises for Meaningful Essays and has had her poetry published in journals such as Southern Poetry Review, Seattle Review, and Spoon River Poetry Review.

For more details about Writers in the Library, visit their Web site.

All Writers in the Library events are held on Mondays at 7 p.m. in the Lindsay Young Auditorium of the John C. Hodges Library on the UT Campus. Other Writers in the Library events for this year include UT Libraries Jack Reese Writer in Residence RB Morris on November 7, and local author and music historian Jack Rentfro on December 5. Singer-songwriter Steve Earle is slated to perform on January 30, 2006.

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, please contact Jo Anne Deeken, Head of Technical Services, UT Libraries, at 974-6905 or deeken@aztec.lib.utk.edu, or R.B. Morris, Jack Reese Writer in Residence, UT Libraries, at 974-3004 or rbmorris@utk.edu.