HAYESVILLE, NC, January 04, 2018 — Marquis Who's Who, the world's
premier publisher of biographical profiles, is proud to present Nancy
Simpson Brantley with the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement
Award.
She celebrates many years' experience in her field and has been noted
for achievements, leadership qualities, and the credentials and
successes she has accrued in her field. As in all Marquis Who's Who
biographical volumes, individuals profiled are selected on the basis of
current reference value. Factors such as position, noteworthy
accomplishments, visibility, and prominence in a field are all taken
into account during the selection process.
Nancy Simpson Brantley has held a BS in Education from Western
Carolina University since 1978, and a Master of Fine Arts in Writing
from Warren Wilson College since 1983. A recipient of the North Carolina
Arts Fellowship from 1991 to 1992, she has been included in several
editions of Who's Who in America, Who's Who in American Education, Who's
Who in the South and Southwest, and Who's Who of American Women. She
was married for 20 years to E.W. Brantley, Jr. and she is the proud
mother of three sons.
A long time English educator and poet, Nancy Simpson Brantley
formerly spent 26 years teaching in the exceptional children's programs
in the Clay County School District in North Carolina. Retiring in 2001,
she simultaneously spent 14 years as an instructor of creative writing
at the Tri-County Community College from 1989 to 2003, in Murphy, NC.
Balancing two significant careers, she was able to teach what she loved.
She taught poetry part-time at the Institute for Continued Learning at
Young Harris College, a liberal arts school in northeast Georgia. She
also taught creative writing in the middle school grades and taught
English composition and American Literature at Hayesville High School.
For 15 years she was employed part-time as a Resident Writer at John C.
Campbell Folk School where her job was to schedule all the writing
classes. She also taught Poetry and Historical Novel. She was also a
guest poet at Western Carolina University, Brevard College, East
Tennessee State University, and State University of New York. She was
active within the North Carolina Arts Council in Clay County, NC. In
1991, she co-founded An Evening of Art and Poetry with Reba Beck.
Special judges were brought in and winners were awarded prize money.
She was an active member of the North Carolina Writers' Network since
its inception in 1985 and served on the Executive Board. In 1991 she
co-founded the North Carolina Writers' Network West, a program to serve
writers in the remote areas of the North Carolina mountains. She served
as program coordinator for 10 years.
All of Nancy Simpson Brantley's writing has been published under her
given name Nancy Simpson. Across Water, State Street Press, Judith
Kitchens publisher was published in 1983.
Night Student, State Street Press, was published in 1985. Nancy Simpson authored the book
Living Above the Frost Line, New and Selected Poems,
chosen by Kathryn Stripling Byer for the first collection in the first
book in the Poet Laureate Series, Carolina Wren Press, Durham, NC in
2010. Ms. Simpson and Shirley Uphouse co-edited
Lights in the Mountains: Stories, Essays and Poems by Writers Living in and Inspired by the Southern Appalachian Mountains, Winding Path Publishing, 2010 with an introduction by Fred Chappell in 2003. Ms. Simpson also served as editor of
Echoes Across the Blue Ridge, an anthology released in 2010 with an introduction by Robert Morgan.
She authored numerous poems which have been included in literary publications such as the
Prairie Schooner,
Georgia Review, and the
Southern Poetry Review. Some were reprinted upon request in anthologies such as
The Poet's Guide to the Birds edited by Ted Kooser,
Word and Wisdom – 100 Years of North Carolina Poetry, and also 7 poems were reprinted in a textbook of Appalachian poets published by McFarland Press, and
Don't Leave Hungry – Southern Poetry Review's 50th Anniversary issue.
In recognition of her outstanding contributions to her profession and
the Marquis Who's Who community, Nancy Simpson Brantley has been
featured on the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement website.
Please visit
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