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Robin Greene is Director of the Writing
Center and Professor of English and Writing. Greene has published three
books—two poetry (Memories of Light and Lateral Drift),
one nonfiction (Real Birth: Women Share Their Stories)—and
has just published Augustus: Narrative of a Slave Woman, a novel about a
woman who was a slave in Fayetteville. Greene is co-founder and editor of
Longleaf Press, MU's literary press, which publishes poetry collections.
She holds a M.A. in English from Binghamton University and a M.F.A. in Writing
from Vermont College of Fine Art at Norwich University. |
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Laura Gail Eagleton Stanhope is Assistant
Director of the Writing Center. She was a practicing attorney in California
for 28 years. A career prosecutor and public defender, she also taught at
The College of the Siskiyous and headed the legal assistant program. After
retiring from the law, she fulfilled her dream of living in Africa, spending
several months in Kenya as a volunteer in a Nairobi orphanage and as a special
student at the Nairobi Evangelical Graduate School of Theology, located
in the town of Karen, the home of Karen Blixen, the author of Out of Africa.
A southern California native from Laguna Beach, she calls the "State
of Jefferson"—a region of northern California and southern Oregon
that once had dreams of statehood—her home where she enjoyed the rural
life filled with children, horses, sheep, cattle, goats, chickens, and all
things cowboy. She graduated from the University of California, Irvine with
a B.A. in Social Ecology and obtained her J.D. from Western State University
College of Law, in Fullerton, California. |
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Allison Bennett moved to Fayetteville
from Fort Rucker, AL. She is originally from Indiana, where, amid the cornfields
and cows, she received her Bachelor of Arts from Purdue University. While
at Purdue, she sampled many of the English majors the university offered,
including English Education, Professional Writing, and Creative Writing,
before choosing to major in English Literature and Composition. She rounded
out her English degree with minors in Art, Art History, and Communication.
Her Communication minor allowed her to explore such courses as copy editing,
writing for the mass media, and rhetoric. |
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Rachel Herrick is a writer and artist
who creates satirical conceptual work about body stigma and ascribed social
identity. Her installation-based art spans a wide variety of media including
sculpture, video, painting, photography, writing and performance. Rachel
has a studio in downtown Raleigh and has exhibited throughout the US. Her
work can be found in the collections of the William Penn Foundation, Comcast,
the NC Bar Association, and the American Council on Exercise. Rachel received
her MFA in Studio Art from the Maine College of Art in 2011, and a BA in
Writing from Methodist University in 2002. She comes to the Writing Center
with an enthusiasm for words and professional experience as a teacher, editor
and reporter. |
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Mary-Ellen Connor-Kwong has spent the
majority of her life in Dunedin, New Zealand—a relatively small city
known for its sheep, snow, and southern men (whom she compares with Middle-Earth's
Orcs). Connor-Kwong has a baccalaureate degree in Economics and in Art History
and an advanced degree in Art History. After graduation, she taught English
at Chonnam National University in Korea, where she met her American husband.
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Baylor Hicks practiced law for many years,
in both North Carolina and the San Francisco Bay area. Notwithstanding the
fact that she lived for close to 30 years in northern California (including
three years at a Zen Buddhist retreat center), she is one of those rare
creatures – a Fayetteville native. As a lawyer, she has worked in
the fields of poverty law, civil litigation, business law, tax/estate planning,
probate, and guardianships; for several years, she specialized in legal
research and writing. A Buddhist and a meditator, she has a broad array
of interests, including art and architecture, affordable housing, history,
natural sciences and the experience of nature, kayaking, qigong and yoga,
gardening and food fermentation (think sauerkraut and pickles), choral singing,
and all things Italian. She obtained her law degree at Stanford University
and her bachelor's at Duke University, from which she was graduated Phi
Beta Kappa and magna cum laude. |
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