Dr. Kevin Brown
Stacey Isom Campbell
Dr. Will Woolfitt
Lee University will host the final Writer’s Festival event of the 2015-16 year on Monday with readings from faculty members Dr. Kevin Brown, Stacey Isom Campbell and Dr. Will Woolfitt. The event will take place at 7:30 p.m. in the Rose Lecture Hall of the Helen DeVos College of Education.
“We are so pleased for this opportunity to showcase to our community and campus the caliber of the three creative writers we have on our faculty,” said Dr. Jean Eledge, chair of the Department of Language and Literature. “Hearing them present and talk about their works will underscore why they each have gained recognition through publications, awards or productions.”
Dr. Brown, professor of English, has published three books of poetry: “Liturgical Calendar: Poems,” “A Lexicon of Lost Words” (winner of the Violet Reed Haas Prize for Poetry), and “Exit Lines.” He also has a memoir, “Another Way: Finding Faith, Then Finding It Again,” and a book of scholarship, “They Love to Tell the Stories: Five Contemporary Novelists Take on the Gospels.” He received his Masters of Fine Arts (MFA) from Murray State University.
Ms. Isom Campbell, associate professor of creative writing, received an MFA in creative writing from Old Dominion University. At Old Dominion, she was the recipient of a teaching assistantship as well as the David Scott Sutelan Memorial Award. A few of her plays include “Letters to John Lennon,” “Touching Aurora,” “Smokin’ Devils,” “California Dreamin’,” “On the 8’s,” “Dough & Cookies,” and “The Memory of Ice.” Her work has been seen or won awards at The Barter Theatre, the Playwright’s Theater (Dallas), Pittsburgh New Works Festival, The Great Plains Theatre Conference, L.A. First Stage, Third Course: Theatre (Austin), EstroGenius Xtended (Manhattan Theatre Source), Red Clay Theatre, and others. She is also a Fellow of The Hambidge Center, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation of New Mexico.
Dr. Woolfitt, assistant professor of creative writing, is the author of the poetry collections “Charles of the Desert,” and “Beauty Strip.” His fiction chapbook “The Boy With Fire in His Mouth” won the Epiphany Editions contest. His poems and stories have appeared in Blackbird, Image, Tin House, The Threepenny Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Epoch, and other journals. Woolfitt is the recipient of the Howard Nemerov Scholarship from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference and the Denny C. Plattner Award from Appalachian Heritage. He earned his doctorate and MFA from The Pennsylvania State University.
Writer’s Festival readings are free, non-ticketed events and open to the public. For more information on Lee’s Writer’s Festival, please email Brown at kbrown@leeuniversity.edu or call 614-8320.