Southern writers were Dannye Romine Powell’s beat during her seventeen years as book editor at the Charlotte Observer, where she was an award-winning news columnist. An accomplished poet, she has published work in such journals as the Paris Review, Prairie Schooner, and the Georgia Review. Her collection of poetry, At Every Wedding Someone Stays Home, won the 1993 First Book Award from the University of Arkansas Press. Among her honors is a 1993 National Endowment for the Arts fellowship in poetry.
Southern writers were Dannye Romine Powell’s beat during her seventeen years as book editor at the Charlotte Observer, where she was an award-winning news columnist. An accomplished poet, she has published work in such journals as the Paris Review, Prairie Schooner, and the Georgia Review. Her collection of poetry, At Every Wedding Someone Stays Home, won the 1993 First Book Award from the University of Arkansas Press. Among her honors is a 1993 National Endowment for the Arts fellowship in poetry.