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Steve Almond (1967- ) received his Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from UNCG in 1997. Almond is the winner of the 2002 Pushcart Prize and the 2005 Alex Award (Young Adult Library Service Association). This collection includes manuscripts of Almond's published short stories, essays, and monographs, as well as several unpublished works.

Abstract Craig Nova is the award-winning author of eleven novels. His writing has appeared in Esquire, The Paris Review, The New York Times Magazine, and Men's Journal, among others. His novels have been translated into ten languages. He has also written scripts for Touchstone Films and Behavior. Nova taught creative writing at UNC Greensboro. In 2005 he was named Class of 1949 Distinguished Professor in the Humanities at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro.The collection...

Abstract Michael Fleming Parker was a professor in the MFA Creative Writing program at UNCG from 1992-2019. He received his Bachelor of Arts from UNC Chapel Hill in 1984 and his Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from the University of Virginia in 1988. Over the course of his career, Parker published ten books and dozens of articles and essays. He was the first to hold the UNCG Nicholas and Nancy Vacc Distinguished Professorship and won many awards, including the Mary Hobson Award in Arts and...

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Tim Sandlin was born in Oklahoma in 1950. He attended the University of North Carolina at Greensboro to receive his M.F.A. in Creative Writing. He is an American novelist and screenwriter, and he has published 10 novels and a book of columns.

The collection contains personal materials, publicity and publishing materials, audiovisual materials, and manuscript drafts of Sandlin's novels, screenplays, and essays.

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Dr. Mark Smith-Soto is Professor Emeritus of Romance Languages (Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures) at UNCG Greensboro. Dr. Smith-Soto also served as editor/poetry editor of International Poetry Review from 1991 to 2022, and as director of the Center for Creative Writing in the Arts from 2005 to 2015.

This collection contains published and unpublished poetry, and photocopies of poetry by Mark Smith-Soto, teaching materials, and publications.

Abstract Isabel Ann Eggers was born to Herman Eggers and Elizabeth Pennington Eggers on July 28, 1932. Her father worked at Appalachian State University from 1929 to 1965. Her younger sister Elizabeth was born around 1936. She married Richard Zuber, a professor of history at Wake Forest University, on August 29, 1954. She and Richard had two children, Jonathan Herman Zuber (b.1963) and Elizabeth Pennington Zuber (b.1967). She divorced Zuber in 1986.Isabel worked as a librarian at...