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Laura-Gray Street teaches creative writing and environmental studies at Randolph-Macon Woman’s College in Lynchburg, Virginia, where she is an Assistant Professor of English. A graduate of the Warren Wilson Program for Writers (MFA, Poetry), the University of Virginia (MA, English) and Hollins University (BA, English), she has also taught creative and expository writing at Lynchburg College and through Johns Hopkins University’s Institute for the Academic Advancement of Youth-Center for Talented Youth. The recipient of a 2002-2003 Individual Artist's Fellowship in Poetry from the Virginia Commission for the Arts, the 2002 Dana Award in Poetry, and the 2003 Emerging Artist Award in Poetry from the Southern Women Writers Conference, Street's poems have appeared in journals such as Meridian, Shenandoah, and The Yalobusha Review, The Notre Dame Review, New Virginia Review, The Greensboro Review, and The Louisville Review. She has been awarded The Greensboro Review’s Prize for Poetry, nominated for three Pushcart Prizes, and featured on Poetry Daily, and she has held both fiction and poetry fellowships at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (VCCA). In 1999 she was commissioned by the New York Festival of Song to write the libretto for a song cycle in celebration of the Millennium and of the organization’s twelfth concert season in New York City. She has recently finished her first novel, which is based on the life and times of former Texas Governor and United States Senator, W. Lee (Pappy) O’Daniel. Street is an active member of The Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE) and the Greater Lynchburg Environmental Network (GLEN).