Lars Eighner

Lars Eighner

male
Rice University, Kirshenbaum, alt.usage.english, TexasInstituteofLetters, Corpus Christi Fine Arts Colony, Lamar High School…From Corpus Christi, Texas, Texas writer, University of Texas at Austin, Council of Literary Magazines and Presses
Lars Eighner is the author of <cite>Travels with Lizbeth,</cite> a memoir of homelessness in the American Southwest during the late 1980s; the...
Naomi Shihab Nye

Naomi Shihab Nye

female, 57 years old
San Antonio, From st. louis, missouri, Trinity College alumni, From St. Louis, American, Arab American…University of Hawai’i, author and/or editor of more than 20 volumes, Texas Observer, Academy of American Poets, University of Texas at Austin
Naomi Shihab Nye was born in St. Louis, Missouri, to a Palestinian father and an American mother. She spent most of her childhood in the United...
Paul Burka

Paul Burka

male, 67 years old
Rice University, juris doctor, The University Of Texas At Austin, University of Texas School of Law, National Magazine Award, Texas Legislature…texas lawyer, University of Texas at Austin alumni, University of Texas at Austin faculty, Texas writer, texas monthly
Paul Burka joined the staff of TEXAS MONTHLY one year after the magazine's founding. A lifelong Texan, he was born in Galveston, graduated from...
Beverly Lowry

Beverly Lowry

New York Times, boston globe, ARTS, English, New, Associate Professor…TexasInstituteofLetters, Department Of English, Mississippi Institute of Arts
Beverly Lowry Associate Professor Beverly Lowry , a widely acclaimed author, has joined the English faculty to teach nonfiction writing. Lowry...
Lisa Sandlin

Lisa Sandlin

female
Rice University, Nurse, vermont college, TexasInstituteofLetters, Cinco Puntos Press, bachelor of arts from Rice University
Lisa Sandlin Lisa Sandlin was born in Beaumont, Texas in 1951. She received her bachelor of arts from Rice University and her master of fine arts...

Joe B. Frantz

male
Harvard University, University of Texas, Northwestern University, professor emeritus, award, borden…TexasInstituteofLetters, Texas Historical Commission, Department of History, administrator of the LBJ Oral History Project
Joe B. Frantz had recently retired from the University of Texas at Austin (Professor Emeritus), and was Turnbull Professor of History at Corpus...

Jennifer Grotz

female
University of North Carolina, poetry, award, MFA, book, New…TexasInstituteofLetters
Jennifer Grotz , assistant director of the Conference, is the author of Cusp , which won the Katharine Nason Bakeless Prize and the Natalie Ornish...

Tom Zigal

male
married, M.A., TexasInstituteofLetters, B.A. in English, Austin Chronicle Corporation, council member of the Texas Institute of Letters
Tom Zigal Thomas Zigal was born in Galveston in 1948 and grew up in Texas City. He received a B.A. in English from UT Austin and an M.A. in...

Carolyn Osborn

female
University of Texas, M.A., TexasInstituteofLetters, TCU Press, graduated from the University of Texas, Austin Chronicle Corporation
Carolyn Osborn Carolyn Osborn graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a B.J. degree in 1955, and an M.A. in 1959. Warriors and...

Laura Krey

female
married, University of Minnesota, professor, New York Times, southern, TexasInstituteofLetters
Laura Krey Laura Krey was born in Galveston but grew up on a family plantation in the lower Brazos Valley, the setting of her first novel, And...