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Cathy smith bowers biography


Cathy Smith Bowers (born 1949) is an American poet and professor.

  • Cathy Smith Bowers (born 1949) is an American poet and professor.
  • Cathy Smith Bowers served as Poet Laureate of North Carolina from 2010-2012, and in 2017 she was inducted into the South Carolina Author's Hall of Fame.
  • As a high-school English teacher, she discovered her urge to write.
  • Cathy Smith Bowers is an American poet and professor.
  • Poet, educator.

    • As a high-school English teacher, she discovered her urge to write..

    Cathy Smith Bowers

    American poet and professor

    Cathy Smith Bowers (born 1949) is an American poet and professor.

    She teaches poetry in an M.F.A. program at Queens University of Charlotte.

    Smith Bowers, born in Lancaster, South Carolina, was the daughter of a mill worker and homemaker.

    Bowers was named by GovernorBev Perdue as the sixth North Carolina Poet Laureate, 2010–2012. She has published five collections of poetry.

    Biography

    Early life and education

    Bowers was born in 1949, in the town of Lancaster, South Carolina.[1] She went on to receive her bachelor's degree in 1972 and master's degree in 1976 (both in English) from Winthrop University in Rock Hill, South Carolina.[2] In 1984, Bowers also attended the International Graduate Summer School at Exeter College at the University of Oxford.[1]

    Career

    Bowers is currently an instructor in poetry in the M.F.A.

    program in Creative Writing at Queens University in Charlotte, North Carolina.[3] She has been an instructor at Queens since 1983.[1]

    Poet laureateship