Fellowship of Southern Writers

ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT

—member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers — grew up in Chatham, Virginia. She has published six books of poetry — Claiming Kin, The Forces of Plenty, The Lotus Flowers, Two Trees, Kyrie (a National Book Critics’ Circle Award Finalist), and most recently, Shadow of Heaven — as well as The Flexible Lyric, a collection of essays. A Guggenheim, Lila-Wallace, and NEA Fellow, she was awarded the Merrill Fellowship from the Academy of American Poets and the O.B. Hardison Prize from the Folger Shakespeare Library in 2002. She teaches in the Warren Wilson College low-residency M.F.A. Program for Writers and is a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.

Fellowship of Southern Writers A. R. Ammons James Applewhite Richard Bausch Madison Smartt Bell Wendell Berry Doris Betts Joseph Blotner Cleanth Brooks Fred Chappell George Core James Dickey Ellen Douglas Clyde Edgerton Ralph Ellison Horton Foote Shelby Foote John Hope Franklin Ernest J. Gaines George Garrett Kaye Gibbons Gail Godwin Allan Gurganus Barry Hannah Beth Henley William Hoffman Josephine Humphreys Blyden Jackson Madison Jones Donald Justice Yusef Komunyakaa C. Eric Lincoln Romulus Linney Andrew Lytle Bobbie Ann Mason Jill McCorkle Marsha Norman Walker Percy Reynolds Price John Shelton Reed Louis D. Rubin, Jr. Mary Lee Settle Lewis P. Simpson Dave Smith Lee Smith Monroe K. Spears Elizabeth Spencer William Styron Walter Sullivan Henry Taylor Peter Taylor Ellen Bryant Voigt Robert Penn Warren Eudora Welty Allen Wier C. Vann Woodward Charles Wright

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