Faculty Information

  • Dan Albergotti is the author of The Boatloads (BOA Editions, 2008), selected by Edward Hirsch as the winner of the 2007 A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize. His poems have appeared in The Cincinnati Review, Shenandoah, The Southern Review, The Virginia Quarterly Review, and Pushcart Prize XXXIII: Best of the Small Presses. A graduate of the MFA program at UNC Greensboro and former poetry editor of The Greensboro Review, Albergotti currently teaches creative writing and literature courses and edits the online journal Waccamaw at Coastal Carolina University in Conway, SC.
  • Darnell Arnoult is the author of the novel Sufficient Grace, published both in hardcover (2006) and trade paperback (2007) by Free Press, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, and now available as an unabridged audio book from Recorded Books. Her collection, What Travels with Us: Poems, published by LSU Press (2005), won the 2005 Weatherford Award in Fiction and Poetry and the 2006 SIBA Poetry Book of the Year Award. Her work has appeared in numerous journals, including Southern Cultures, Southwest Review, and Asheville Poetry Review. She holds a B.A. in American Studies with a concentration in Southern Folklore from UNC, Chapel Hill and an M.A. in English and Creative Writing from NC State University. She is a regular faculty member of the Duke Writers Workshop, Learning Events, and the John C. Campbell Folk School. She lives with her husband in Brush Creek, Tennessee where she is at work on her second novel. Her web site address is www.darnellarnoult.com.
  • Dwonna Goldstone grew up in Moline, Illinois, home of the John Deere tractor. She received a B.A. in American Studies from the University of Iowa and an M.A.T. in Secondary English Education from Brown University. Her Ph.D. is in American Studies from the University of Texas at Austin. Her book, Integrating the Forty Acres: The Fifty Year Struggle for Racial Equality at the University of Texas, looks at the long process to integrate UT. While completing her graduate studies, she worked as a social studies editor for Holt, Rinehart and Winston, an educational publisher. Dwonna teaches English at Austin Peay State University and is currently working on the second part of her essay, "A Black Woman's Guide to Online Dating."
  • Belinda Smith won a Dove Award for 2004 Bluegrass Recorded Song of the Year. Her songs have received several Dove and other award nominations, and she has had three number one songs. She was presented with a BMI Award in 2004. She has served on songwriting faculties across the country and also mentors privately. Her MySpace page is at www.myspace.com/belindasmith.

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