Terry L. Kennedy (English)has been named by the North Carolina Humanities Council to its 2019 panel of judges for the Linda Flowers Literary Award. Judges were selected based on level of literary involvement in the state of North Carolina.
Kennedy is the author of the poetry collection “New River Breakdown,” as well as the limited-edition chapbook “Until the Clouds Shatter the Light That Plates Our Lives.” His work appears in a variety of journals and magazines and has been anthologized in “Hard Lines: Rough South Poetry” and “The Southern Poetry Anthology Volume VII: North Carolina.” Among Kennedy’s honors are the 2015 Tandy R. Willis Award for Most Promising Writer from the USC Union Upcountry Literary Festival and a 2016-17 UNCG College of Arts & Sciences Teaching Excellence Award. He currently serves as the director of the Graduate Program in Creative Writing at UNCG and as editor for both The Greensboro Review and the online journal, storySouth.
