• MODERN AND CONTEMPORATY POETRY
• POETRY WRITING
• WOMEN WRITERS

Beth Ann Fennelly is an Associate Professor of English. She received her B.A. magna cum laude from the University of Notre Dame, an M. F. A. from the University of Arkansas, and a post-doc fellowship at the University of Wisconsin. Her grants include a 2003 National Endowment for the Arts Award and a 2006 United States Artist Grant. She's published three books of poetry, Open House, which won The 2001 Kenyon Review Prize and the GLCA New Writers Award, Tender Hooks (W. W. Norton, 2004), and Unmentionables (W. W. Norton, 2008). She's also published a book of essays, Great With Child (W. W. Norton, 2006). She has three times been included in The Best American Poetry Series and is a Pushcart Prize winner. She lives in Oxford, MS, with her husband, fiction writer Tom Franklin, and their two small children.