Coffee Night Welcomes Professor George Ella Lyon
Professor George Ella Lyon will visit UVa-Wise and will be our distinguished featured writer at Coffee Night, April 5th, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Coffee Night is open to the public and will be held at the Chapel of All Faiths.
Professor Lyon will also speak on "Finding Words: How a Writer Works" at a Public Lecture, April 6th, 1-2 p.m., at the invitation of the College Lecture Committee, the Department of Language and Literature, the Department of Communication Studies, and the College's literary journal the Jimson Weed. This event will also be held in the Chapel of All Faiths.
About Professor George Ella Lyon
A leading poetic voice and a word-weaver in the literature of the Appalachian region, director of the Appalachian Writers Workshop, Professor Lyon is the author of more than 22 children's picture books, give novels for young readers and one adult novel. She has been a writer-in-residence at Centre College and at the Carnegie Center as well as a visiting author in hundreds of schools and writing workshops for teachers and librarians throughout the U.S. and in Germany.
Born and raised in Harlan County, Ky., she is a prize-winning writer, a frequently anthologized poet, author of two collections of poetry and two plays and contributor to books and periodicals. She recently edited another anthology, A Kentucky Christmas (2003). Her work also appears in the PBS series, The United States for Poetry.
Her first book of poetry, Mountain (1983), won the Lamont Hall Award from Andrew Mountain Press and her second book of poetry, Catalpa (1993), interweaving her ancestry from the hills with Virginia Woolf for common humanity, won the Appalachian Book of the Year award. Borrowed Children (1988), her first young adult novel, is winner of the Golden Kite Award. Among her picture books, Come a Tide (1990) is featured on Reading Rainbow; Who Came Down That Road? (1992) is a Publishers' Weekly Best Book of the Year; Basket (1990) and One Lucky Girl (1990) are winners of the Kentucky Bluegrass Award.
George Ella Lyon earned a B.A. in English from Centre College, an M.A. in English from the University of Arkansas, and a Ph.D. in English, specializing in Virginia Woolf, from Indiana University. Lyon is married to musician/writer Steve Lyon and is the mother of two sons, Ben and Joey. She lives with her family in Lexington, Kentucky.
For more information on George Ella Lyon, her life and writing, see the following websites:
http://www.georgeellalyon.com/
http://windpub.com/authors/GEL.htm
http://www.english.eku.edu/SERVICES/KYLIT/LYON.HTM
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