Nancy Simpson is the author of three poetry collections: Across
Water, Night Student and Living Above the Frost Line,
New and Selected Poems published at Carolina Wren Press. She
holds an MFA from Warren Wilson College and a B.S. in Education from
Western Carolina University. She received a N.C. Arts Fellowship and
co founded NC Writers Network-West, a non profit, professional
writing organization serving writers living in the remote mountains
west of Asheville. For more than thirty years she has been known as
“beloved teacher” to thousands of young writers.
Simpson’s poems have been published in The Georgia Review,
Southern Poetry Review, Seneca Review, New Virginia Review,
Prairie Schooner and in other literary magazines. Her poem,
“Night Student” was reprinted in the anthology Word and
Wisdom, 100 Years of North Carolina Poetry and in Literary
Trails of North Carolina. Seven of her poems are featured
in Southern Appalachian Poetry, a textbook anthology published
at McFarland Press. The Southern Poetry Review, Armstrong
College in Savannah, Georgia included one of her poems in their 50th
Anniversary issue, Don't Leave Hungry and a new poem in their
recent issue featuring Georgia poets. Her poem “Carolina Bluebirds”
was included in The Poets Guide to Birds, an anthology edited
by Judith Kitchen and Ted Kooser, and her poem “Pink Pantsuit”
was featured recently in Ted Kooser’s widely read “American Life
in Poetry” newspaper column.
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