Laura Gray-Street
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She graduated from Hollins UniversityHollins University
Hollins University is a four-year institution of higher education, a private university located on a campus on the border of Roanoke County, Virginia and Botetourt County, Virginia...
, University of Virginia
University of Virginia
The University of Virginia is a public research university located in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States, founded by Thomas Jefferson...
, and Warren Wilson College
Warren Wilson College
Warren Wilson College is a private four-year work college in the Swannanoa Valley, North Carolina, United States near Asheville. It is known for its curriculum of work, academics, and service, called "the Triad," which requires every student to work an on-campus job, perform at least one hundred...
with an MFA. She is assistant professor at Randolph College
Randolph College
Randolph College is a private liberal arts and sciences college located in Lynchburg, Virginia. Founded in 1891 as Randolph-Macon Woman's College, it was renamed on July 1, 2007, when it became coeducational....
, and serves on the board of the Greater Lynchburg Environmental Network and the Central Virginia Land Conservancy.
Her work has been published in Shenandoah, Meridian, the Notre Dame Review, Gargoyle, The Greensboro Review, the Yalobusha Review, New Virginia Review.
She has been a fellow at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and writer-in-residence at the Artist House at St. Mary's College in Maryland.
Awards
- fellowship from the Virginia Commission for the Arts
- Dana Award in Poetry
- The Greensboro Review Award in Poetry.
- 2003 poetry winner in the Emerging Writers Contest sponsored by the Southern Women Writers Conference.
- 2002 Dana AwardDana AwardThe Dana Award is a literary award presented in short fiction, poetry and the novel. It was founded in 1996 by literature professor and poet Mary Elizabeth Parker with the financial backing of Michael Dana. The competition is currently based in Greensboro, North Carolina...