By Michelle Hines, University Relations
Jennifer Grotz.
Jennifer Grotz, a faculty member in the MFA Writing Program at UNCG, has won the New Writing Award for Poetry from The Fellowship of Southern Writers.
Grotz will receive the award during the Fellowship’s Spring 2007 meeting, which takes place March 29-31 in Chattanooga, Tenn.
She will read from her work Sept. 28 in the UNCG Faculty Center on College Avenue. The reading is free, open to the public and sponsored by the MFA Writing Program and the Greensboro Review.
Winner of the Bakeless Prize for Poetry and the Natalie Ornish Prize from the Texas Institute of Letters, Grotz is the author of “Cusp.” Her poems have appeared in Kenyon Review, New England Review, Ploughshares and “Best American Poetry 2000.” She is the assistant director of the Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference and co-organizer of the Krakow Poetry Seminar. She holds an MFA from Indiana University and a PhD from the University of Huston.
The Fellowship was founded in 1987 by 26 distinguished Southern writers, including novelists, poets, historians, playwrights, critics and editors. The Fellowship meets biennially during the Chattanooga Arts & Education Council’s Conference on Southern Literature. It seeks to recognize and encourage literature in the South by commemorating outstanding literary achievement with awards and prizes, by encouraging young writers and by recognizing distinction in writing by election to membership.
