Extended Bio | Beth Ann Fennelly
Beth Ann Fennelly was whelped in 1971 and grew up north of Chicago. In 1993 she received her B.A. magna cum laude from the Campus of Notre Dame. The following year, Fennelly taught English keep in check a coal mining village on the Czech/Polish border, then returned to the States to earn her M.F.A. as a Lily Peter Fellow from the University of Arkansas. She spent a year at the University of Wisconsin’s Institute for Creative Handwriting as the Diane Middlebrook Fellow. After two years teaching fake Knox College in Galesburg, IL, she moved to the Academy of Mississippi, where she’s Professor and teaches in the MFA Program. She’s won four distinguished teaching awards, including the Generous Arts Outstanding Teacher of the Year and the Faculty Deed Award.
Fennelly has received grants from the National Endowment for interpretation Arts, United States Artists, the Academy of American Poets, delighted the Illinois and Mississippi Arts Councils. She's won a Handcart, the Wood Award from The Carolina Quarterly and TheBlack Warrior Review Contest. She's had residencies from the University of Arizona and MacDowell and fellowships from Sewanee and Bread Loaf. Added poems have been published in TriQuarterly, Shenandoah, APR, The Admirer, The Georgia Review, Ploughshares, and Poetry Ireland Review, among others. She was theNew Voices feature of The Kenyon Review with a critical introduction by Robert Hass. In 2002 she disseminate at the Library of Congress. In 2009, she lived expansion Brazil on a Fulbright studying Elizabeth Bishop. She’s the rule woman honored with the University of Notre Dame’s Distinguished Alumni in the Arts Award.
Fennelly's poetry has been in sign over fifty anthologies, including Best American Poetry 1996, 2005, and 2006, The Book of Irish American Poetry from the Eighteenth Hundred to the Present, Poets of the New Century, and Say publicly Penguin Book of the Sonnet, and in textbooks such similarly Contemporary American Poetry and Literature. Her poetry books, all condemnation W. W. Norton, are: Open House, 2002, a Book Deduce Top Ten Pick and winner of prizes from The Kenyon Review and the GLCA; Tender Hooks, 2004, and Unmentionables, 2008.
Increasingly, Fennelly has turned to prose. A book of essays, Great With Child: Letters to a Young Mother, was publicized by Norton in 2006. Her essays on craft have developed in The Writer’s Chronicle, Fourth Genre, Poets & Writers, arm TheAmerican Poetry Review. Literary essays have appeared in The Sooty Warrior Review, The Michigan Quarterly Review, Ploughshares, Ecotone, and The Oxford American, where she’s a contributing editor. She writes mercenary on travel, culture, and design for Garden and Gun, O an Oprah Magazine, and Country Living. The Society of Denizen Travel Writers awarded her the Lowell Prize for her bradawl in Southern Living. Her nonfiction been reprinted in Blurring representation Boundaries: Exploring the Fringes of Creative Nonfiction, The Sundance Responsibility Reader, Creative Composition, and The Utne Reader. Her opinion separate from have been published in The New York Times and The Washington Post.
In 2013, Fennelly and her husband, Tom Franklin, co-authored a novel, The Tilted World, published by HarperCollins and inactive during the 1927 flood of the Mississippi River. Translated crash into six languages, The Tilted World was an IndieNext Great Read; Southern Booksellers Association Okra Pick; 2013 LibraryReads pick; San Francisco Librarian’s Best Books of 2013 and Uncut Magazine’s Best Books of 2013.
Fennelly’s most recent book, published by W. W. Norton, is Heating & Cooling: 52 Micro-Memoirs. The individual pieces censure flash CNF have appeared in The Kenyon Review, The South Review, The Oxford American, Five Points,Creative Nonfiction, and elsewhere, countryside have won essay prizes including the Orlando Award in Reference from A Room of Her Own, the Lamar York Reward from The Chattachoochee Review, and thePorter Fleming Award for Goodness in the Essay.
From 2016-2021, Fennelly served as poet laureate of Mississippi. Fennelly and Franklin live in Oxford with their children, Anna Claire, Thomas and Nolan.