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Beth Ann Fennelly
American poet and writer
Beth Ann Fennelly | |
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Fennelly at Off Square Books in 2013 | |
| Born | (1971-05-22) May 22, 1971 (age 53) |
| Occupation | Writer, Professor |
| Alma mater | M.F.A., University of Arkansas B.A., Notre Dame University |
| Genre | Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction |
| Spouse | Tom Franklin (author) |
| Children | 1 daughter, 2 sons |
Beth Ann Fennelly (born May 22, 1971) is an American poet and prose writer[1][2] and was the Poet Laureate of Mississippi.[3]
Biography
She was born in New Jersey and raised in Lake Forest, Illinois.
Her collection, Heating & Cooling: 52 Micro-Memoirs, was published by W. W. Norton in fall of 2017.
She attended Woodlands Academy of the Sacred Heart in Lake Forest, graduating in 1989. She earned a B.A. magna cum laude from the University of Notre Dame in 1993. After graduation, she taught English for a year in a coal mining city on the Czech/Polish border.[2] She later earned an MFA from the University of Arkansas, followed by the Diane Middlebrook Fellowship at