Andrea Hollander Budy

The Lyon College Writer in Residence teaches two courses per academic year, serves as Director of the Visiting Writers Series, and serves on the selection committee for the Leila Lenore Heasley Prize.

Teaching

Andrea Hollander Budy is a poet. So when Lyon students sign up for Introduction to Poetry, Modern Poetry, and Creative Writing/Poetry, they get to study with a person who practices what she teaches. She's a regular writer of reviews and has published a memoir, as well, so even her freshman composition students are studying with a practitioner.

Publishing

People can claim to be writers, but if they never get published, you wonder. The only wonder with Lyon's writer in residence is how she gets published so frequently. She has turned out three chapbooks and three full books of poetry, House Without a Dreamer, The Other Life, and Woman in the Painting. In between putting together her books, she has published individual poems in journals like Shenandoah, The Georgia Review, Kenyon Review, Poetry, and many more.

Awards

Sometimes it seems as though this writer wins an award for everything she publishes. Well, not quite, but her honors are certainly many. House Without a Dreamer won the prestigious Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize, and her honors for the last couple of years include the D. H. Lawrence Fellowship, the Ellipsis Poetry Prize, the Pushcart Prize for memoir, and two poetry fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the only Arkansas poet to win such national recognition.

Extracurriculars

Budy meets often with aspiring student writers and hosts a public reading in which they present their work. In addition she directs Lyon's Visiting Writers Series, and chairs the Heasley Prize Selection Committee. At least three distinguished writers visit campus every year, giving readings, meeting with classes, and teaching writing workshops. Recent visiting writers include novelists Lee Smith, Jill McCorkle, Bret Lott, and Kent Haruf and poets Alice Friman, Martha Collins, and Jason Sommer.

Out in Town

Andrea Hollander Budy gives writing workshops all over the U.S. and in England and France.