Grace Simpson has been named Poet Laureate of Virginia by Governor James Gilmore; she will serve until
June 2002. Mrs. Simpson, now
retired, taught English, creative writing, and journalism at Prince Edward
County High School for 15 years. She
is a graduate of Winthrop University and holds a M.A. from Longwood College.
She has taught at Florida State, Auburn, and Longwood.
Mrs.
Simpson’s
poems have been widely published in such journals as The Southern Poetry
Review, The Formalist, Negative Capability, The Christian
Century, The Cincinnati Poetry Review, Snake Nation Review,
and Zone 3, from which she received the Rainmaker Award for Poetry in
1991. Her new book of poetry, Dancing
the Bones, will be released this April.
She
is the wife of Hampden-Sydney Professor Emeritus of English Hassell Simpson and
has lived on the campus of Hampden-Sydney College for 39 years.
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