Visiting Writers Committee

The NGCSU Visiting Authors Program works to bring to campus contemporary writers who can discuss their literary work with our students and community, offering illuminating perspectives on human experience--revealed through their poetry, fiction, essays, and memoirs, as well as insights about the writing and publishing process.  

Our Fall 2007 Visiting Author is Mr. Jackie Cooper, author of Journey of a Gentle Southern Man, Chances and Choices, and Halfway Home.  His latest book, a collection of personal sketches entitled The Bookbinder, was published by Mercer Press in 2006.  Mr. Cooper is also host of a weekly Georgia Public Radio program called “Fridays with Jackie.” 

Mr. Cooper’s NGCSU presentation will be held on October 18^th at 7:00 p.m. in Hoag Auditorium.  Students, faculty, staff, and regional community members are invited to attend.

Fall 2001               Amy Blackmarr, memoirist                                    Going to Ground (1997)

                                                                                                                Above the Fall Line (2003)

 Spring 2002          Lynn Hinton, novelist                                         Friendship Cake (2001)

 Fall 2002               Judith Ortiz Cofer, poet, essayist,

and fiction writer                                                  Terms of Survival (1987)

Silent Dancing (1991)

The Latin Deli: Telling the lives of

Barrio Women (1993)

Reaching for the Mainland (1995)

Woman in Front of the Sun (2000)

 Spring 2003          Janisse Ray, creative nonfiction writer            Ecology of a Cracker Childhood (2000)

  Fall 2003               Lorraine Lopez, fiction writer                            Soy la Avon Lady and Other Stories (2002)

                                And John Stone, poet                                         Where Water Begins (1998)

 Spring 2004          Natasha Trethewey, poet                                   Domestic Work (2000)

Belocq’s Ophelia (2002

 Fall 2004               Linda G. Niemann, memoirist                           Boomer: A Railroad Journey (1992)

Railroad Voices (1998)

 Spring 2005

 Fall 2005               Terry Kay, novelist                                             To Dance with the White Dog (1991)

                                                                                                                The Valley of Light (2003)

 Spring 2006          Margaret Edson, playwright                              Wit (1999)

 Fall 2006               Brian Corrigan, novelist                                     The Poet of Loch Ness (2005)

 Spring 2007          In conjunction with the

2007 Dahlonega Literary Festival:

Diane Gabaldon, novelist                                  Outlander (1992)

Cassandra King, novelist                                   The Same, Sweet Girls (2006)

Mary Kay Andrews, novelist                            Little Bitty Lies (2004)    

Dr. Amy Childers, chair
314-C Dunlap Hall
PH:  706-864-1961
achilders@ngcsu.edu

Dept. of English  NGCSU  Dahlonega, GA  30597