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Laura-Gray Street
Professor of English
| Credentials: | B.A., Hollins College M.A., University of Virginia M.F.A., Warren Wilson College |
| Associated Departments: | English |
| Office: | Smith 403 |
| Phone: | 434-947-8727 |
| Email: | lstreet@randolphcollege.edu |
News Headlines
- Street named Black Earth Institute Fellow
- Street co-edits new anthology, A Literary Field Guide to Southern Appalachia
- Di Bei ’18 publishes first young adult novel in China
- M.F.A. program launches new literary journal, Revolute
- Next Visiting Writers series event to feature Randolph’s creative writing faculty
- Ukuleles and a bearded dragon are essential to the creative process
- Professor Laura-Gray Street publishes chapbook of poems
- Randolph president discusses freedom and the liberal arts in Convocation remarks
- Distinguished alumnae authors to open fall Visiting Writers Series
- Randolph English professor disconnects as part of alumna-sponsored fellowship
Laura-Gray Street’s work has appeared in Many Mountains Moving, The Human Genre Project, Isotope, Gargoyle, From the Fishouse, ISLE, Shenandoah, Meridian, Blackbird, Poetry Daily, The Notre Dame Review, The Greensboro Review, and elsewhere; selected by George Garrett for Best New Poets 2005; commissioned by the New York Festival of Song; and included in Pivot Points, an exhibition of poets and painters that traveled internationally.
Street has received a Poetry Fellowship from the Virginia Commission for the Arts, the Editors’ Prize in Poetry from Isotope, the Emerging Writer in Poetry Award for the Southern Women Writers Conference, the Dana Award in Poetry, and The Greensboro Review’s Annual Literary Award in Poetry, and fellowships at the VCCA and the Artist House at St. Mary’s College in Maryland.
She is co-editing an anthology of ecopoetry that is forthcoming from Trinity University Press, and her poetry collection Rung was short listed for the 2009 Benjamin Saltman Award with Red Hen Press. Street has an MA in English from the University of Virginia and an MFA in poetry from Warren Wilson’s Program for Writers.
Street also teaches in the Environmental Studies Department and serves on the board of two local environmental groups, the Greater Lynchburg Environmental Network (GLEN) and the Central Virginia Land Conservancy (CVaLC).
Some of her work can be read at…