Don't miss this month's Chattanooga Writers Guild month meeting. Poet
Shara McCallum, who teaches in the MFA program at the University of Memphis
& was the winner of the 1998 Agnes Lynch Starrett prize for poetry, will be
our featured reader!
When: Tuesday, March 11th, from 7:00--9:00 p.m.
Where: UTC Faculty Club (located at the corner of Oak street & Palmetto
Street)
Who: Shara McCallum, winner of the1998 Agnes Lynch Starrett prize for poetry
More About the Author:
Shara McCallum was born in Jamaica to Afro-Jamaican and Venezuelan parents
and moved to the U.S. at the age of nine. She earned a B.A. from the
University of Miami, an M.F.A. from the University of Maryland, and a Ph.D.
in Poetry and African American and Caribbean Literature from Binghamton
University in New York. Her first book of poetry, The Water Between Us
(University of Pittsburgh Press, 1999), won the 1998 Agnes Lynch Starrett
Prize. Her poems have won a college prize from The Academy of American
Poets, been nominated for three Pushcart Prizes, and appeared in several
journals, including The Antioch Review, Chelsea, The Iowa Review, and
Verse. McCallum's poems have been anthologized in The New American Poets: A
Bread Loaf Anthology (ed. Michael Collier, 2000) and Beyond the Frontier:
African American Poetry for the Twenty-First Century, and she recently
received a Tennessee Individual Artist Grant in Literature. She is a
fiction editor of OBSIDIAN III: Literature in the African Diaspora, teaches
in the MFA program at the University of Memphis, and lives in Tennessee.
For more information on the Chattanooga Writers Guild, please visit:
www.chattanoogawritersguild.org
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Jennifer Hoff
Grant Consultant
Office of Grants and Program Review, Dept. 4905
The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
615 McCallie Avenue
Chattanooga, TN 37403
Phone: 423-425-4168
Fax: 423-425-4052
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Website: http://www.utc.edu/Grants-and-Research
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