Kathryn Stripling Byer
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| Gender | Female |
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| Occupation | Writer and Teacher |
| Location | Cullowhee, North Carolina, United States |
| Links | Audio Clip |
| Introduction | I've lived in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina since 1968, though I'm a native of SW Georgia. My paternal grandmother was born in the Blue Ridge, and I grew up wanting to live here. Where I am. I've published five collections of poetry, the most recent 4 being with LSU Press, and have published poetry in magazines ranging from The Atlantic Monthly to Appalachian Heritage. But I also hike, bang pots and pans around in my kitchen, and love several dogs who leave fur all over my carpets. I write poetry because it's my way of singing back to the world both within and without. |
| Favorite music | Dvorak, Mozart, Nina Simone, Opera, and Bluegrass |
| Favorite books | American Primitive (Mary Oliver), everything by Seamus Heaney, Outside History ( Eavan Boland), The Door (Margaret Atwood), Complete Poems (Czeslaw Milosz), etc. |