Discipline: Literature – poetry

Memye Tucker

Discipline: Literature – poetry
Region: Marietta, GA
MacDowell Fellowships: 1996, 2001
Memye Tucker is an award-winning poet from Georgia whose 1999 collection, "The Watchers," has been chosen for inclusion on the Georgia Center for the Book's 2010 list of "25 Books All Georgians Should Read." She teaches poetry and also serves as senior editor of the Atlanta Review. The author received a B.A. degree from Agnes Scott College, where she has been named the school's first "Distinguished Alumna author." She received an M.A. from Columbia University and a Ph.D. in English literature from Emory University. The recipient of many prizes and fellowships, she has taught poetry writing since 1989 at the Callanwolde Fine Arts Center in DeKalb County, Ga.

Studios

Phi Beta

Memye Tucker worked in the Phi Beta studio.

Funded by the Phi Beta Fraternity, a national professional fraternity of music and speech founded in 1912, Phi Beta Studio was built between 1929–1931 of granite quarried on the MacDowell grounds. The small studio is a simple in design, but displays a pleasing combination of materials with its granite walls and colorful slate roofing. Inside is…

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