Visions of Mary is a collection of poems which document, remember, and imagine scenes in visual art and the Carolina landscape. This collection studies the intersections [...]

Amelia once deeply appreciated the online community that had formed around the blog of the charismatic writer called Rei Locke. When Amelia learned that Rei Locke had bee[...]

In the 1970s in rural North Carolina, in the shadow of Brown Mountain and its mysterious fabled Lights, fifteen-year-old Quinno Moore and his older sister, Gabrielle, are[...]

Degrees of Separation is a collection of fifty poems which explore overlapping concepts of womanhood and femininity through ecopoetry. The poems focus on a speaker reflec[...]

A historical fiction novel set in colonial Belgian Congo during World War II, The Institute: A Work of Fiction centers around Mary Elkhorn, an American agriculturist who [...]

In a culture dominated by Eurocentric traditions and narratives, there are many silences in our discourse. I seek to address the absence of multiculturalism in children’s[...]

AbstractThe Cowboy Era in American history began following the end of the Civil War in the 1860s and lasted until the 1890s when much of the Western Frontier land was pri[...]

Needles and Dust comprises the first part, approximately 20,000 words of a novel in progress. In the summer of 1988, Thao Dena, a twelve-year-old girl in the Ban Vinai re[...]

MELISSA ANN GOODNIGHT. Poor-Branded Women. (Under the direction of BRYN CHANCELLOR, M.F.A.) Poor-Branded Women is a collection of three creative nonfiction essays aiming[...]

Adrastea is a science-fiction novel that follows Adrastea on her journey from the moon to Earth in a misguided quest to find her sister. Set several thousand years in the[...]