From the Directory of Writers

Terri McCord is a visual artist as well as a poet. She recently won first place out of 600 entries in the South Carolina Poetry Initiative/The State Newspaper Single Poem Contest. Other awards include finalist standing in the Press 53 Open Awards, Pocataligo Poetry Prize from Yemassee Review, Southeast Review, etc. She won the 2007 Don Russ Poetry Prize from Kennesaw Review. She recently read for the Sundown Poetry Series at the Spoleto Festival. She has conducted workshops across the state - most recently for the Foothills Writers Guild. More information is available at: http://www.southernartistry.org/Terri_McCord

Ray McManus

Poet
Columbia, SC

Susan Meyers

Poet
Summerville, SC

Susan Meyers is the author of Keep and Give Away (University of South Carolina Press, 2006), winner of the inaugural South Carolina Poetry Book Prize, the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance (SIBA) Book Award for Poetry, and the Brockman-Campbell Book Award. Her chapbook Lessons in Leaving (1998) won the Persephone Press Book Award. Her poetry has been published in numerous journals, including The Southern Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Crazyhorse, and jubilat, as well as the online sites Poetry Daily, Verse Daily, and Ted Kooser’s American Life in Poetry column. A long-time writing instructor with an MFA from Queens University of Charlotte, Meyers teaches poetry workshops and classes in area community programs. She is a past president of the poetry societies of both North and South Carolina. In 2011 she was awarded the Verna Ubben Fellowship to VCCA.

Ronald Moran

Poet
Simpsonville, SC

From the Directory of Writers

Thomas McConnell

Terri McCord

Ray McManus

Susan Meyers

Ronald Moran