30 Poets in 30 Days

When we stopped to visit with Laura-Gray Street at the Randolph College booth at the book fair I took one look at the book she had co-edited - The Literary Field Guide to Southern Applachia - and I knew it was coming home with me. It's a gorgeous hardbound book, the kind of book that makes me want to curl up in a corner and start reading right then and then. It is filled with beautiful poems befitting such a work of art. (If you're keeping count at home, yes, my suitcase was full of books on the return flight to Lincoln.)

Laura-Gray is the author of Pigment and Fume and Shift Work and co-editor of The Ecopoetry Anthology and A Literary Field Guide to Southern Appalachia. Her poetry has received prizes from The Greensboro Review, the Dana Awards, the Southern Women Writers Conference, Isotope: A Journal of Literary Science and Nature Writing, and Terrain.org: A Journal of the Built and Natural Environments. and been supported by fellowships from the Virginia Commission for the Arts, the  Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Artist House at St. Mary’s College in Maryland, and the Hambidge Center for the Arts and Sciences, where she was the Garland Distinguished Fellow in 2016. Street holds an MA from the University of Virginia and an MFA from the Warren Wilson Program for Writers. She is professor of English, directs the Creative Writing and Visiting Writers Series Program, and edits the MFA’s literary journal Revolute at Randolph College in Lynchburg, Virginia, beside the James River in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains.