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Kendall Dunkelberg directs the Low-Residency MFA in Creative Writing Program and the Eudora Welty Writers’ Symposium at Mississippi University for Women. He is editor of Poetry South and has published three collections of poetry, Barrier Island Suite, Time Capsules, and Landscapes and Architectures, as well as the textbook A Writer’s Craft: Multi-Genre Creative Writing. His … Continued

John T. Edge, author of the forthcoming House of Smoke: A Southerner Goes Searching for Home, writes and hosts the television show TrueSouth and serves Garden & Gun as a columnist. His previous books include The Potlikker Papers: A Food History of the Modern South. Edge directs the University of Mississippi’s Mississippi Lab, where he leads development of Greenfield Farm … Continued

W. Ralph Eubanks is the author of A Place Like Mississippi, which takes readers on a complete tour of the real and imagined landscapes that have inspired generations of authors. This is a book that honors and explores the landscape of Mississippi—and the Magnolia State’s history—and reveals the many ways this landscape has informed the … Continued

Alyson (“Al”) Favilla is an MFA student and a Grisham Fellow in poetry at the University of Mississippi. They have been published in Poetry Ireland Review, Diode, Electric Literature, McSweeney’s, and, most recently, Attached to the Living World: A New Ecopoetry Anthology.

Beth Ann Fennelly, a 2020 Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow, was the poet laureate of Mississippi from 2016 to 2021 and teaches in the MFA Program at the University of Mississippi. She’s won grants and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the United States Artists, a Pushcart, and a Fulbright to Brazil. … Continued