Virginia Brackett, Ph.D, serves as an Assistant Professor of English and Director of the Park University Degree Program with Honors (www.park.edu/honors) and received Outstanding Faculty Awards in 2006 and 2008. She also directs the Park University Ethnic Voices Poetry Series (www.park.edu/ethnicpoetry) . Brackett has published more than 100 articles for both adult and young adults and her 13 books have received various citations. Her first book, "Elizabeth Cary: Writer of Conscience" (Morgan Reynolds) was included in the 1997 New York Library Catalog of Recommended Reading for Teens. "Restless Genius: The Story of Virginia Woolf "(Morgan Reynolds) was a recommended feminist book for youth by Amelia Bloomer Project, 2005 (Feminist Task Force of the Social Responsibilities Round Table, ALA); a PSLA YA Top Forty Nonfiction 2004 Title, and was included in “Writers of Imagination” series, Tristate Series of Note, 2005. "A Home in the Heart: The Story of Sandra Cisneros" (Morgan Reynolds), was a Tristate Book of Note and included in the PSLA YA Top Forty Nonfiction 2004 Titles. "The Facts on File Companion to the British Novel: Beginnings through the 19th Century" is a recommended purchase for libraries by the publication "Choice". "The Facts on File Companion to British Poetry: 17th & 18th Centuries" was named a Booklist Editor's Choice, Reference Sources, 2008. Brackett also holds degrees in Business and Medical Technology.

Website: http://captain.park.edu/VirginiaBrackett/

Location: Park University, Parkville, MO 64152

Alternate Names: Ginger Roberts Meredith Brackett