Beth Ann Fennelly teaches poetry, memoir, and literature to undergraduates and graduates.
Biography
Beth Ann Fennelly, Poet Laureate of Mississippi from 2016-2021, teaches in the M.F.A. Program at the University of Mississippi where she is a four-time teaching award winner. She’s received grants from the N.E.A., the United States Artists, the Academy of American Poets, and a Fulbright to Brazil. Her work has won a Pushcart Prize and three times been included in The Best American Poetry Series. Fennelly has published three poetry books: Open House, Tender Hooks, and Unmentionables, and a book of nonfiction, Great with Child, all published with W. W. Norton. A novel she co-authored with her husband, Tom Franklin, called The Tilted World, was published by HarperCollins. Her sixth book, Heating & Cooling: 52 Micro-Memoirs (W. W. Norton), was named an Atlanta Journal Constitution Best Book, a Goodreaders Favorite for 2017, and the winner of the Housatonic Book Prize. Fennelly and Franklin live in Oxford with their three children.
Publications
More books by Beth Ann Fennelly
The Tilted World
Unmentionables
Great With Child: Letters to a Young Mother
Open House
Courses Taught
- Eng 103 Appreciation of Literature
- Eng 199 Intro to Creative Writing
- Eng 208 World Culture II
- Eng 299 Introduction to Literary Studies
- Eng 300 Introduction to Creative Writing
- Eng 301 Poetry Workshop
- Eng 303 Nonfiction Workshop
- Eng 309 Studies in Genre
- Eng 351 Topics in Contemporary Literature
- Eng 352 Studies in Contemporary Literature
- Eng 355 Studies in Southern Literature
- Eng 391 Junior Seminar: Major Authors of American Lit
- Eng 397 Junior Seminar Poetry
- Eng 402 Advanced Nonfiction Workshop
- Eng 409 Special Topics in Genre
- Eng 418 Writing Expository Prose
- Eng 419 Advanced Poetry Workshop
- Eng 461 Special Topics in Southern Literature
- Eng 461 Contemporary American Fiction
- Eng 677 Poetry Workshop
- Eng 679 Form, Craft, and Influence: Poetry
- Eng 682 Graduate Poetry Workshop
- Eng 683 Form, Craft, and Influence
- Eng 686 Studies in Genre
Education
B.A. English, University of Notre Dame (1993)
MFA Creative Writing, University of Arkansas-Fayetteville (1998)