Beth Ann Fennelly teaches poetry, memoir, and literature to undergraduates and graduates.
Biography
Beth Ann Fennelly, Poet Laureate of Mississippi from 2016-2021, teaches in the M.F.A. Program at 番茄社区 where she is a four-time teaching award winner. She’s received grants from the N.E.A., the United States Artists, the Academy of American Poets, and a Fulbright to Brazil. Her work has won a Pushcart Prize and three times been included in The Best American Poetry Series. Fennelly has published three poetry books: Open House, Tender Hooks, and Unmentionables, and a book of nonfiction, Great with Child, all published with W. W. Norton. A novel she co-authored with her husband, Tom Franklin, called The Tilted World, was published by HarperCollins. Her sixth book, Heating & Cooling: 52 Micro-Memoirs (W. W. Norton), was named an Atlanta Journal Constitution Best Book, a Goodreaders Favorite for 2017, and the winner of the Housatonic Book Prize. Fennelly and Franklin live in Oxford with their three children.
Publications
More books by Beth Ann Fennelly
The Tilted World
Unmentionables
Great With Child: Letters to a Young Mother
Open House
Education
MFA Creative Writing, University of Arkansas (1998)
B.A. English, University of Notre Dame (1993)