Nan Graham is a lifelong Southerner who has lived in almost every corner of the South. She was born in Tallahassee, Florida, and spent her childhood there and in Columbia and Summerville, South Carolina; Atlanta, Georgia; and Tuscaloosa, Alabama. She spent her freshman year in college at what is now Rhodes University in Memphis (where she saw Elvis perform), her sophomore year at the University of Alabama, and a summer session at Florida State University, before graduating from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she was a cheerleader, a Dean’s List student, “Miss Beat Dook,” and the May Queen representative in Esther William’s court at Wilmington’s Azalea Festival. She has also lived in New Orleans, Houston, and Arlington, Virginia. She holds a master’s degree from the Citadel in Charleston. She has been a writer-in-residence at the University of West Alabama in Livingston and teaches at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. She lives in Wilmington with her husband.
Nan Graham is a lifelong Southerner who has lived in almost every corner of the South. She was born in Tallahassee, Florida, and spent her childhood there and in Columbia and Summerville, South Carolina; Atlanta, Georgia; and Tuscaloosa, Alabama. She spent her freshman year in college at what is now Rhodes University in Memphis (where she saw Elvis perform), her sophomore year at the University of Alabama, and a summer session at Florida State University, before graduating from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she was a cheerleader, a Dean’s List student, “Miss Beat Dook,” and the May Queen representative in Esther William’s court at Wilmington’s Azalea Festival. She has also lived in New Orleans, Houston, and Arlington, Virginia. She holds a master’s degree from the Citadel in Charleston. She has been a writer-in-residence at the University of West Alabama in Livingston and teaches at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. She lives in Wilmington with her husband.