Betty Adcock
Elizabeth "Betty" Sharp Adcock (born September 16, 1938)[1] is an American poet and a 2002–2003 Guggenheim Fellow. Author of six poetry collections, she has served as a faculty member in the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers in Asheville, NC and in the Writer-in-Residence program at Meredith College in Raleigh, NC. She has also held residencies at Lenoir-Rhyne College, Kalamazoo College, and Duke University, and has twice served as Visiting Distinguished Professor at North Carolina State University.[2]
Life
The daughter of a landowner and a schoolteacher, Adcock grew up in San Augustine, TX, a small farming community. The landscape of the area, a mix of West and Deep South, influenced her work. She moved to North Carolina after her marriage to Donald Adcock. The two have a daughter, Sylvia.
Adcock is primarily self-taught. She has no degrees,[3] though she attended Texas Tech University, Goddard College, and North Carolina State University.[4] She studied and wrote poetry for more than ten years while working in the business world. After her first book was published, she was awarded a teaching residency at Duke University. Other teaching positions followed, most notably her ongoing position as Writer in Residence at Meredith College, which she held until 2006.[3]
Poetry collections
Adcock's poetry collections include the following:[5][6]
- Walking out: Poems, 1975
- Nettles: Poems, 1983
- Beholdings: Poems, 1988
- The Difficult Wheel: Poems, 1995
- Intervale: New and Selected Poems, 2001 (winner of the Poets' Prize and a finalist for the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize)
- Slantwise: Poems, 2008 (Louisiana State University Press L.E. Phillabaum Prize volume for 2008)
Awards
Adcock's awards include the following:[3]
- State of North Carolina Artist Fellowship in Poetry, 1988
- North Carolina Award for Literature, 1996
- Texas Institute of Letters Prize, 1996
- Sam Ragan Award in Fine Arts, 1998
- Guggenheim Fellowship, 2002
- Poets' Prize, 2003
- Two Pushcart Prizes
- National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry
See also
References
- ↑ Literary Map of NC: Elizabeth Sharp Adcock
- ↑ "Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers". Retrieved 2009-04-26.
- 1 2 3 "BettyAdcock.com Bio". Retrieved 2009-04-26.
- ↑ "NC Award Profile". Archived from the original on March 21, 2009. Retrieved 2009-05-11.
- ↑ "LSU Press Authors". Retrieved 2009-04-26.
- ↑ "BettyAdcock.com Books". Retrieved 2009-04-26.