Betty Adcock

Elizabeth "Betty" Sharp Adcock (born September 16, 1938)[1] is an American poet and a 2002–2003 Guggenheim Fellow. Author of six poetry collections, she has served as a faculty member in the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers in Asheville, NC and in the Writer-in-Residence program at Meredith College in Raleigh, NC. She has also held residencies at Lenoir-Rhyne College, Kalamazoo College, and Duke University, and has twice served as Visiting Distinguished Professor at North Carolina State University.[2]

Life

The daughter of a landowner and a schoolteacher, Adcock grew up in San Augustine, TX, a small farming community. The landscape of the area, a mix of West and Deep South, influenced her work. She moved to North Carolina after her marriage to Donald Adcock. The two have a daughter, Sylvia.

Adcock is primarily self-taught. She has no degrees,[3] though she attended Texas Tech University, Goddard College, and North Carolina State University.[4] She studied and wrote poetry for more than ten years while working in the business world. After her first book was published, she was awarded a teaching residency at Duke University. Other teaching positions followed, most notably her ongoing position as Writer in Residence at Meredith College, which she held until 2006.[3]

Poetry collections

Adcock's poetry collections include the following:[5][6]

  • Walking out: Poems, 1975
  • Nettles: Poems, 1983
  • Beholdings: Poems, 1988
  • The Difficult Wheel: Poems, 1995
  • Intervale: New and Selected Poems, 2001 (winner of the Poets' Prize and a finalist for the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize)
  • Slantwise: Poems, 2008 (Louisiana State University Press L.E. Phillabaum Prize volume for 2008)
  • Widow Poems, 2014
  • Rough Fugue, 2017

Awards

Adcock's awards include the following:[3]

See also

References
  1. Literary Map of NC: Elizabeth Sharp Adcock
  2. "Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers". Archived from the original on 2008-12-04. Retrieved 2009-04-26.
  3. "BettyAdcock.com Bio". Retrieved 2009-04-26.
  4. "NC Award Profile". Archived from the original on March 21, 2009. Retrieved 2009-05-11.
  5. "LSU Press Authors". Retrieved 2009-04-26.
  6. "BettyAdcock.com Books". Retrieved 2009-04-26.
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