Virginia Brackett

Virginia Brackett, Ph.D, serves at Park University (MO) as Professor of English and Director of the Park University Honors Academy (www.park.edu/honors). She received Outstanding Faculty Awards in 2006 and 2008. In 2010, she was named Park's Distinguished Humanities Professor, and in 2012, Park's Distinguished Faculty Scholar. She founded and directed the Park University Ethnic Voices Poetry Series, a Missouri Arts Council grant-funded program (www.park.edu/ethnicpoetry) from 2007 - 2014 and Poetry@Park (http://www.park.edu/%5C/poetry-at-park/index.html) and was recognized as a 2010 Distinguished alumni by …