Tony Earley

Tony Earley was born in San Antonio, Texas, and grew up in North Carolina near the Blue Ridge Mountains. He graduated from Warren Wilson College in 1983 and earned an MFA in creative writing from the University of Alabama. Since 1997 he has taught writing at Vanderbilt University....

Rose McLarney

Rose McLarney was reared near Asheville, North Carolina. From an early age, she had a keen love for the mountains, which she credits in part for her decision to attend Warren Wilson College for both her BA and MFA degrees, where she has also taught. McLarney is a professor of creative writing at Auburn University. She has published two collections of poems, ...

Ezekiel, Nissim (1924–2004)

Nissim Ezekiel was a poet, playwright, director of plays, university professor, art critic, literary editor, and reviewer. Born to academic Marathi-speaking, Jewish parents of the minority Bene-Israel persuasion, Ezekiel’s existence within cosmopolitan Mumbai (then Bombay) rendered complex his poetic sensibility. After a Bachelor’s degree in literature at Wilson College, Bombay, in 1947 and some political engagement with M.N. Roy’s Radical Democratic Party, he sailed to England for further studies in 1948. As a student of philosophy at Birkbeck College, London, he published his first volume of poetry, A Time to Change (1951).