Rosemary Royston, Congratulations!

Congratulations to our Program Coordinator, Rosemary Royston. Her poetry chapbook, Splitting the Soil, will be published by Redneck Press.

This excerpt is from the website of Redneck Press:

Rosemary Royston’s chapbook Splitting the Soil will be published in late 2011/early 2012. Rosemary is a poet and writer who has lived in the foothills of the Southern Appalachians for the last sixteen years. A native of north Georgia, she studied at Young Harris College, The University of Georgia, and received her MFA in Writing from Spalding University in Louisville, KY.

Rosemary’s poetry has been published in The Comstock Review, Main Street Rag, Alehouse, Literal Latte, Public Republic, and Dark Sky Magazine. Her essays on writing poetry are forthcoming in Women and Poetry: Tips on Writing, Teaching and Publishing by Successful Women Poets, McFarland.

She was the recipient of the 2010 Literal Latte Food Verse Award, and she was the 2004 recipient of first and third place in poetry, Porter Fleming Literary Awards. She currently serves as the Program Coordinator for the North Carolina Writers Network-West. http://theluxuryoftrees.wordpress.com/