After moving to North Carolina in 1961, she graduated summa cum laude from Belmont Abbey College with a bachelor's degree in English.
[1] After college, she spent ten years working as a reporter, drama critic, and feature writer for the Australian Associated Press (New York City), the Ansonia Sentinel (Ansonia, Connecticut), and the Sunday Herald (New Haven, Connecticut).
[3] She also won several single-poem awards, including the 1982 Sam Ragan Poetry Prize for "At Grandfather Mountain II."
[2] Her papers are on file at Western Piedmont Community College,[4] and in the Southern Appalachian Writers Collection of the Asheville Art Museum, University of North Carolina.
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