Present | Faculty Member, Appalachian State University ‐ College of Arts and Sciences | |
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Present | Professor of Creative Writing, Appalachian State University ‐ Department of English | |
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Disciplines
Research Interests
Honors and Awards
- 2016 North Carolina Award in Literature
- Poet Laureate of North Carolina, 2012-14
- Gilbert-Chappell Distinguished Poet for the Western Region for the North Carolina Poetry Society, 2011-12
- Chair of the N.C. Writers’ Network Prison project, 1989-94
- Literature Fellowships from the N.C. Arts Council in 1994 (poetry) and 2009 (fiction)
- Inaugural Senator John Heinz History Center Italian American Collection Scholar-in-Residence
- 2014 The Irene Blair Honeycutt Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Literary Arts
- 2014 Rita Dove Poetry Award, presented annually by The Center for Women Writers at Salem College
- 2014 Shenandoah Prize for Fiction, awarded annually to the best story published in a volume year of Shenandoah
- 2013 Mary Frances Hobson Prize
- 2012 Ragan-Rubin Award for Literary Achievement
- 2012 Will D. Campbell Award for Creative Nonfiction
- Samuel Talmadge Ragan Award, presented annually for outstanding contributions to the Fine Arts of North Carolina over an extended period
- Fellowship recipient from The Witter Bynner Foundation for Poetry
- Bruno Arcudi Literature Prize
- Ernest A Lynton Faculty Award for Professional Service and Academic Outreach
- Aniello Lauri Award for Creative Writing (2001 and 2007)
- Linda Flowers Prize
- Sherwood Anderson Award
- Barbara Mandigo Kelly Peace Poetry Prize
- Donald Murray Prize
- 2019 Lee Smith Award
B.A., University of Pittsburgh ‐ English Literature | ||
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M.F.A., Warren Wilson College ‐ Creative Writing | ||
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M.A., University of Pittsburgh ‐ English Literature | ||
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Links
Contact Information
bathantijr@appstate.edu
828-262-2337