Art & Art History
Department

Artists-in-Residence 2009-2010 (Writers)

Nick Tambakeras / Laura-Gray Street / Daniel Groves / Shirlette Ammons

 

Nick Tambakeras
October 18 - December 4, 2010  
VOICES Reading: Thursday, December 2, 8:15 PM, DPC

Nick Tambakeras has written for diverse publications, from Pittsburgh Magazine, to the Hellenic Voice, a weekly independent newspaper covering Greek-American news & interests. Recently, he completed a Master's Degree in English and Creative Writing at Northern Arizona University and was the recipient of the Frederick J. Dockstader award for outstanding fiction. Nick also operated the University Writing Center and was editor-in-chief of Thin Air Magazine, NAU's literary mag.  Nick is currently embroiled in an exciting new project, traveling throughout the U.S. recording his (mis)adventures as creative non-fiction blog entries and as feature travel articles for publication. These recent writings can be found at http://www.hugging-the-road.com.

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Laura-Gray Street
February 7 - March 4, 2011 
VOICES Reading: Thursday, March 3, 8:15 PM, DPC

Laura-Gray Street is co-editor of Ecopoetry: A Contemporary American Anthology, forthcoming from Trinity University Press. Her work has appeared in Many Mountains Moving, The Human Genre Project,Isotope, Gargoyle, From the Fishouse, ISLE, Shenandoah, Meridian,Blackbird, Poetry Daily, The Notre Dame Review, The Greensboro Review, and elsewhere; selected by George Garrett for Best New Poets 2005; nominated for three Pushcart Prizes; and commissioned by the New York Festival of Song. Street has received a Poetry Fellowship from the Virginia Commission for the Arts, the Editors’ Prize in Poetry from Isotope, the Emerging Writer in Poetry Award for the Southern Women Writers Conference, the Dana Award in Poetry, and The Greensboro Review’s Annual Literary Award in Poetry. Street has an MA in English from the University of Virginia and an MFA in poetry from Warren Wilson’s Program for Writers. She is an Assistant Professor of English at Randolph College in Lynchburg, Virginia.

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Daniel Groves
March 9 - 31, 2011 
VOICES Reading: Thursday, March 31, 8:15 PM, DPC

Daniel Groves is the author of The Lost Boys (VQR Poetry Series/University of Georgia Press). His poems have appeared in Paris Review, Yale Review, Poetry, and elsewhere.

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Shirlette Ammons 
April 5 - May 6, 2011
VOICES Reading: Thursday, April 7, 8:15 PM, DPC

Shirlette Ammons is a poet, writer, musician and director of an arts program for children. Her second collection of poetry, entitled Matching Skin, was published by Carolina Wren Press in June 2008 and her first collection of poetry, entitled Stumphole Anthology of Bakwoods Blood(Big Drum Press) was published in September 2002. She is also vocalist songwriter for hip hop rock band, mosadi music. Her poetry and essays appear in The Ringing Ear: Black Poets Lean South (edited by Nikky Finney, University of Georgia Press), What Your Mama Never Told You: True Stories About Love and Sex (edited by Tara Roberts, Houghton Mifflin), The Asheville Review and other publications. Shirlette is also a Cave Canem Fellow and has received the Kathryn H. Wallace Award for Artists In Community Service and the Durham Arts Council and United Arts Council Emerging Artist Grant. Shirlette resides in Durham, North Carolina.

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