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Though not born of the South, Beth Ann
Fennelly has made Mississippi her home and she fits in quite nicely. Born in New
Jersey, and raised in Lake Forest, Illinois Beth Ann earned a
Bachelors degree from the University of Notre Dame and a Masters of
Fine Arts from the University of Arkansas. She became an Assistant
Professor of English and taught poetry at Knox College in Galesburg,
Illinois.
Her book of poems, Open House, has
won numerous awards, including the 2001 Kenyon Review Prize in
Poetry for a First Book and her chapbook A Different Kind of
Hunger, published by the Texas Review Press, won the
1997 Texas Review Breakthrough Award. In 2002, she received the
National Endowment for the Arts Grant.
Beth Ann lives in Oxford,
Mississippi with her husband southern author Tom Franklin and their
two children. She is
Assistant Professor of English at the University
of Mississippi.
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