Local Authors

Writers by town

Town tags record a documented connection through residence, work, study or sustained literary activity, not a current address.

Hillsborough 128

The town the Wall Street Journal called “America’s Little Literary Town.”

Lee Smith · Allan Gurganus · Frances Mayes · Jill McCorkle

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Chapel Hill 923

Home to UNC, longtime publishers and journalists, and generations of writers who have lived and worked here.

Sarah Dessen · Paul Green · Betty Smith · Randall Kenan

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Carrboro 51

A small town with a long literary streak: poets, novelists, cartoonists, publishers and writers of all kinds.

Daphne Athas · Jay Bryan · Keith Knight · Amanda Bennett

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Orange County's literary life does not stop at the town limits: Cedar Grove 3 Efland 1 Mebane 10

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Local Author Directory

1,876 connected writers · 281 at OCPL · 1,117 titles in the OCPL catalog

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• Dasan AhanuPoet · Chapel Hill · Taught at UNCAlso published or known as Chris MassenburgSpoken word artist, 2023 Piedmont Laureate, and visiting professor at UNC.
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• Daniel AndersonNewEditor · Poet · College teacher · Taught at UNCPoet who has taught at UNC, the University of Oregon, and Alabama at Birmingham.
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• Pam BaggettPoetryPoet whose chapbook Wild Horses follows a friendship from 1970s rock and roll to a bedside farewell.
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• Joan BarasovskaNewPoet · Lived or worked in the countyOrange County poet who ran a private practice in academic therapy for 35 years.
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• Bartholomew BarkerNewComputer programmer · Lived or worked in HillsboroughPoet who moved to Hillsborough after twenty years in Connecticut and works as a computer programmer to fund the poetry.
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• Coleman BarksNewTranslator · Poet · College teacher · Lived or worked in Chapel Hill · Studied at UNCPoet whose free renderings of Rumi made the Persian mystic a bestseller in English; took his Ph.D. in English at UNC in 1968 and taught at the University of Georgia.
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• Coyla BarryNewPoetry · Lived or worked in Chapel HillPoet and former marine biologist and research librarian; divides her time between Chapel Hill and Montana.
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• Jeffery BeamPoet · Lived or worked in Hillsborough · Taught at UNCPoet whose work weaves the natural world, the body, and the spirit; longtime botanical librarian at UNC. A member of the Friends of the Library.
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• Aaron BelzPoetry · Lived or worked in HillsboroughHillsborough poet laureate from 2014 to 2016; his collections include Lovely, Raspberry and Glitter Bomb.
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• John Claude BemisAuthor · Lived or worked in HillsboroughAward-winning author of middle-grade novels, the 2013 Piedmont Laureate for children's literature, and a regular teacher of the library's young-writer workshops.
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• Amanda BennettPoetry · Lived or worked in CarrboroPoet of Working the Roots and Carrboro's ninth poet laureate, the first Black woman in the role.
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• Wm. Bingham1835–1873NewEducator · Born in HillsboroughHillsborough-born schoolmaster, poet, and textbook author whose Latin grammars were used across the South; he ran the Bingham School and died in 1873.
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• Jay BryanPoet · Lawyer · Lived or worked in CarrboroCarrboro poet laureate from 2010 to 2013.
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• Thomas Burkec. 1747–1783Governor · Poet · Lived or worked in HillsboroughIrish-born poet and Revolutionary governor of North Carolina, writing from Hillsborough, where Tory raiders kidnapped him in 1781.
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• Candace Q. ButlerPoetrySpoken word poet whose Rise Above It outreach carries inspirational poetry into the community.
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• Gabrielle CalvocoressiPoet · Chapel Hill · Taught at UNCPoet of Rocket Fantastic and The New Economy; the Walker Percy Fellow in Poetry at UNC.
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• Rebecca Cameron1845–1936NewFiction · Lived or worked in HillsboroughHillsborough novelist and poet who published as H. M. LeGrange; daughter of William and Emma Moore Cameron.
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• Michael ChitwoodPoet · College teacher · Chapel Hill · Taught at UNCChapel Hill poet and essayist whose collections include Salt Works, Gospel Road Going, and From Whence; he taught for many years at UNC.
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• Shirley CochraneNewPoet · Born in Chapel HillBorn in Chapel Hill in 1925; author of short stories and poems and a freelance editor.
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• Nancy Kenney ConnollyPoetry · Lived or worked in CarrboroPoet whose collections include I Take This World.
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• Jennifer DanielsPoetry · Lived or worked in HillsboroughHillsborough poet laureate from 2022 to 2024.
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• William DavisPoetry · Lived or worked in HillsboroughHillsborough poet laureate from 2016 to 2018.
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• Tyree DayePoet · Chapel Hill · Taught at UNCWhiting Award-winning poet of Cardinal; teaches in UNC's creative writing program.
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• Annie DillardMemoir · Lived or worked in HillsboroughHonors: Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction · National Humanities Medal · Guggenheim Fellowship · Connecticut Women's Hall of FamePulitzer Prize-winning author of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek; she divides her time between Hillsborough and Virginia.
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• Morrow DowdleGraphic novels · Lived or worked in HillsboroughPoet exploring family, culture, and history; the chapbook Nature v. Nurture debuted at the Hillsborough book fair.
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• Carlina DuanPoetry · Chapel Hill · Taught at UNCPoet of Alien Miss; teaches in UNC's creative writing program.
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• Charles Edward Eaton1916–2006Poet · Chapel Hill · Taught at UNCHonors: North Carolina Award for LiteraturePoet who taught creative writing at UNC and lived long on Greenwood Road; a recipient of the North Carolina Award for Literature.
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• Elon G. EidenierPoetry · Lived or worked in HillsboroughPoet; a contributor to 27 Views of Hillsborough.
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• Henry Small EllenwoodPoetry · Lived or worked in HillsboroughAlso published or known as Henry Small, Peter Pindar1820s satirist and man of letters who wrote as Dr. Barnabus Bolus.
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• Terrence FousheePoetryPoet of Black Mama Advice, writing from the county's own communities.
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• Jane GentryNewPoet · College teacher · Lived or worked in Chapel Hill · Studied at UNCAlso published or known as Jane Gentry VanceKentucky poet and University of Kentucky English professor, her state's poet laureate in 2007; she took her doctorate at UNC and lived for a time in Chapel Hill.
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• Robert J. Getty1908–1963NewPoetry · Lived or worked in Chapel HillClassicist and expert on the ancient author Lucan, lived in Chapel Hill; contributor to M. Annaei Lucani De bello civili liber I (1979).
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• Cortland GilliamPoetry · Lived or worked in Chapel HillChapel Hill's second poet laureate, serving 2023 to 2024.
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• Marianne GingherNovelist · Chapel Hill · Taught at UNCNovelist of Bobby Rex's Greatest Hit; taught in UNC's creative writing program for decades.
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• Steve GodwinNewGraphic artist · Poet · Book artist · Lived or worked in CarrboroCarrboro graphic designer, book artist, and poet.
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• Eugene V. GraceNewPoetry · Lived or worked in Chapel HillLives in Chapel Hill; author of MASH, Central America (1985).
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• Alex GrantPoetry · Chinese poetry · Lived or worked in Chapel HillChapel Hill poet whose collections include Fear of Moving Water.
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• Jaki Shelton GreenPoet · Lived or worked in EflandAlso published or known as Jaki SheltonHonors: North Carolina Award for Literature · North Carolina Poet Laureate · Fellowship of the Academy of American PoetsNinth Poet Laureate of North Carolina and the first African American in the role; teaches documentary poetry at Duke. Inducted into the North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame in 2014.
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• James HaarNewArts & musicAmerican musicologist and W.R. Kenan Jr, affiliated with UNC; author of 3 books in the Library of Congress catalog, from The Tugendsterne of Harsdörffer and Staden: an exercise in… (1965) to The science and art of Renaissance music (1998).
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• William HarmonNewPoet · Chapel Hill · Taught at UNCConcord-born poet, James Gordon Hanes Professor Emeritus in the Humanities at UNC, author of five poetry collections and editor of A Handbook to Literature from 1984 to 2011.
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• Maggie HellwigNewAuthor · Educator · Lived or worked in Chapel HillEducator and poet living in Chapel Hill; MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
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• Barbara Bynum HendersonTranslator · Poet · Lived or worked in HillsboroughAlso published or known as Barbara Bynum, Minna Curtis BynumPoet and translator honored on the Orange County Courthouse mural.
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• Patrick HerronPoetry · Lived or worked in CarrboroCarrboro poet laureate from 2003 to 2005 and founder of the West End Poetry Festival.
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• Judy Hogan1937–2024Novelist · Poet · Periodical editor · Lived or worked in Chapel HillFounded Carolina Wren Press, the press later led by Andrea Selch; poet, teacher, and mystery novelist.
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• George Moses Hortonc. 1798–1883Poet · Lived or worked in Chapel HillComposed and sold poems on the UNC campus while enslaved, becoming the first Black Southerner to publish a book of poetry; a North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame inductee.
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• Ann HumphreysNewPoet · Lived or worked in CarrboroCarrboro poet with an MFA from the Warren Wilson program.
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• Tyler R. JohnsonNewPoetry · Lived or worked in CarrboroAuthor and poet living in Carrboro; his books include The Swamps That Close.
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• Fred JoinerPoetry · Lived or worked in CarrboroCarrboro poet laureate from 2019 to 2022 and a 2019 Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow.
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• Meta DuEwa JonesNewAuthor · College teacher · Lived or worked in Chapel Hill · Taught at UNCUNC associate professor of English and author of The Muse Is Music, on jazz poetry from the Harlem Renaissance to spoken word.
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• Paul JonesPoet · Lived or worked in Chapel Hill · Taught at UNCUNC professor, poet, and founder of the ibiblio digital library; a contributor to 27 Views of Chapel Hill.
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• Amal KassirPoetry · Lived or worked in HillsboroughHillsborough poet laureate for 2025 to 2027; a Syrian American slam champion and author of Scud Missile Blues.
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• Barbara KenyonPoet · Flute player · Lived or worked in HillsboroughHillsborough poet laureate from 2012 to 2014.
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• Carolyn Kizer1925–2014Poet · Lived or worked in Chapel HillHonors: Pulitzer Prize for Poetry · Pushcart Prize · Robert Frost Medal · Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry PrizePulitzer Prize-winning poet of Yin who served as poet in residence at UNC.
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• Jiggs KunkelNewPoetry · Lived or worked in Chapel HillPoet, Harvard-trained lawyer, and active Quaker; died in Chapel Hill in 1998.
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• Devi S. LaskarNewFiction · Born in Chapel HillHonors: Asian/Pacific American Awards for LiteratureChapel Hill native whose novel The Atlas of Reds and Blues won an Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature; also a poet and photographer.
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• Robert LaxNewPoet · College teacher · Taught at UNCPoet of The Circus of the Sun and lifelong friend of Thomas Merton who spent his last decades on the Greek island of Patmos; he taught briefly at UNC.
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• Raina J. LeónNewAfrican American poet · College teacher · Lived or worked in Chapel Hill · Studied at UNCHonors: Cave Canem fellow · CantoMundo fellowPoet of Canticle of Idols and Boogeyman Dawn, a Cave Canem and CantoMundo fellow who teaches at Saint Mary's College of California; a UNC graduate.
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• Donovan LivingstonPoetry · Lived or worked in Chapel HillChapel Hill poet laureate for 2025 and 2026, whose Harvard convocation address became the book Lift Off.
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• Zelda LockhartArt therapist · Author · Lived or worked in HillsboroughNovelist of Fifth Born and Cold Running Creek; served as the 2010 Piedmont Laureate.
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• Kate LoveladyPoetry · Lived or worked in CarrboroCarrboro's first poet laureate, serving from 2002 to 2003.
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• Robert Lynch1947–1989NewLawyer · Civil servant · Chapel Hill · Studied at UNCHalifax County-born poet, lawyer, and art collector; a UNC graduate with a Harvard law degree.
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• James MaxeyFantasy · Born in HillsboroughWrites science fiction and fantasy, from the Bitterwood dragon novels to superhero capers; served as the 2015 Piedmont Laureate.
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• W. L. McAtee1883–1962NewOrnithologist · Born in Chapel HillHonors: Doctor of ScienceOrnithologist with the Bureau of Biological Survey who described more than 460 insect species and also published poetry, prose, and folklore; he died in Chapel Hill in 1962.
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• Michael McFeeEditor · Critic · Poet · Lived or worked in Chapel Hill · Taught at UNCHonors: North Carolina Award for LiteraturePoet of a dozen collections, including Shinemaster and We Were Once Here; taught in UNC's creative writing program for more than three decades. A recipient of the North Carolina Award for Literature.
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• Will McInerneyPoetry · Lived or worked in Chapel HillPoet and audio journalist; a contributor to 27 Views of Chapel Hill.
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• Neal McTighePoetry · Lived or worked in CarrboroCarrboro poet laureate from 2005 to 2010.
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• Vasa D. MihailovichNewTranslator · Poet · Chapel Hill · Taught at UNCSerbian-born poet, short story writer, and translator who taught Slavic languages and literature at UNC from 1961 to 1995.
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• Ruth MoosePoetry · Chapel Hill · Taught at UNCTaught in UNC's creative writing program for fifteen years; her Dixie Dew mysteries begin with Doing It at the Dixie Dew.
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• V. Y. MudimbeNewEssayist · Philosopher · Anthropologist · Lived or worked in Chapel HillAlso published or known as Mudimbe Vumbi YokaHonors: Grand prix catholique de littérature · ASA Best Book PrizeCongolese philosopher, novelist, and poet, author of The Invention of Africa; Ruth F. DeVarney Professor of Romance Studies at Duke, he lived in Chapel Hill and died in 2025.
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• Abby ParcellNewPoetry · Lived or worked in Chapel HillChapel Hill poet and poetry editor for the magazine Exponent II.
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• Nancy PeacockNovelist · Lived or worked in HillsboroughHillsborough novelist whose debut Life Without Water was a New York Times Notable Book; served as the 2018 Piedmont Laureate.
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• Steven D. PeckNewPoetry · Lived or worked in Carrboro · Taught at UNCPoet and librarian with a UNC library degree; died in Carrboro in 1994.
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• Steven L. PeckNewBiology · Biomathematics · Studied at UNCBrigham Young University biologist, poet, and novelist of The Scholar of Moab; he took a master's in biostatistics at UNC.
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• Steven PetrowFiction · Lived or worked in HillsboroughAlso published or known as Steven PetroJournalist and essayist on aging, health, and civility for the Washington Post and New York Times; served as the 2024 Piedmont Laureate. A member of the Friends of the Library.
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• Gary PhillipsPoet · Lived or worked in CarrboroCarrboro poet laureate from 2016 to 2019.
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• Matt PoindexterPoetry · Lived or worked in HillsboroughHillsborough poet whose debut chapbook Fatherland (Unicorn Press, 2025) turns fatherhood, family, and his native North Carolina into verse.
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• Virginia W. PowellNewPoetry · Lived or worked in Chapel HillLived in Chapel Hill; contributor to England & Roanoke (1988).
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• Minnie Bruce Pratt1946–2023Literature · Social sciences · Chapel Hill · Studied at UNCHonors: Lambda Literary Award · Academy of American Poets · Lucille Medwick Memorial Award · Audre Lorde AwardPoet, essayist, and activist whose years at UNC and in Chapel Hill's feminist and lesbian communities shaped books including Crime Against Nature, a Lamont Poetry Selection of the Academy of American Poets.
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• William H. RaceNewCollege teacher · Chapel Hill · Taught at UNCClassicist and translator of Pindar and Apollonius for the Loeb Classical Library; taught at UNC after Vanderbilt.
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• Thomas Middleton Raysor1895–1974NewPoetry · Lived or worked in Chapel HillHonors: Guggenheim FellowshipAmerican literary scholar, lived in Chapel Hill; author of 3 books in the Library of Congress catalog, from The English romantic poets, a review of research (1950) to William Wordsworth and Samuel T. Coleridge: selected… (1958).
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• Mark L. ReedNewEnglish literature · Lived or worked in Chapel Hill · Taught at UNCHonors: Guggenheim FellowshipAsheville-born Wordsworth scholar, Lineberger Professor in the Humanities Emeritus at UNC and a Guggenheim Fellow; compiler of the Wordsworth chronology.
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• Michael Rigsby RevereNewPoet · Born in Chapel HillAlso published or known as Mike Rigsby, Michael RigsbyAtlanta-born poet who has lived in Chapel Hill, Montana, Oregon, and the North Carolina mountains.
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• Eliza RichardsNewHumanities · Taught at UNCProfessor of English and comparative literature, has taught at UNC; author of Gender and the poetics of reception in Poe's circle (2004).
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• Rachel B. J. RichardsonNewPoet · Taught at UNCHonors: Hopwood AwardBerkeley-born poet and Hopwood Award winner who has taught at UNC; author of Copperhead and Hundred-Year Wave.
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• David RoderickNewPoet · Chapel Hill · Taught at UNCPoet from Plymouth, Massachusetts, who was Kenan Visiting Writer at UNC and taught at UNC Greensboro for nine years.
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• Gibbons RuarkPoet · Lived or worked in Chapel HillUNC-educated poet of Rescue the Perishing and Passing Through Customs.
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• Roger SaulsPoet · Lived or worked in Chapel HillPoet whose collections include Light and The Hierarchies of Rue.
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• Joanna Catherine ScottFiction · Lived or worked in Chapel HillChapel Hill novelist and poet whose The Road from Chapel Hill follows three lives through Civil War North Carolina.
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• Jim Seay1939–2026Poet · Essayist · College teacher · Lived or worked in Chapel Hill · Taught at UNCPoet and longtime director of UNC's creative writing program, the post later held by several writers in this directory; he died in Chapel Hill in 2026.
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• Andrea SelchPoetry · Lived or worked in HillsboroughPoet of Startling and Succory, and longtime president of Carolina Wren Press.
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• Phillip ShabazzPoetry · Lived or worked in CarrboroPoet with a long record of teaching poetry in North Carolina classrooms.
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• Alan ShapiroPoet · Translator · College teacher · Lived or worked in Chapel Hill · Taught at UNCHonors: Guggenheim Fellowship · North Carolina Award for LiteraturePoet of more than a dozen collections; a National Book Award finalist and longtime UNC professor.
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• Stanislav ShvabrinNewPoetry · Studied at UNCA UNC graduate; contributor to Fantasy (1999) and 3 other titles.
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• Susan Willey SpaltNewPoet · Lived or worked in CarrboroCarrboro poet and author of the memoir Back When We Were Italian, after a career in school health.
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• Celisa SteelePoet · Lived or worked in CarrboroCarrboro poet whose collections include How Language Is Lost.
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• Dee StriblingPoetPoet of people and place, with a geographer's eye for how each shapes the other.
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• CJ SuittPoetry · Lived or worked in Chapel HillChapel Hill native and director of the Sacrificial Poets; appointed the town's first poet laureate in 2019.
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• Tess TessierPoetryAlso published or known as Grandma TessRetired professor of philosophy and religious studies, published writer and poet, and an advocate for kids' right to read. She serves as the Friends of the Library board secretary.
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• James S. Tippett1885–1958Poetry · Lived or worked in Chapel HillChapel Hill children's poet whose I Live in a City and Crickety Cricket! set everyday life to verse for young readers, writing with Martha K. Tippett.
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• Tony TostPoetry · Lived or worked in Chapel HillPoet of Invisible Bride and television writer whose credits include Longmire.
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