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 Pittsburg State University where she received her MA degree. Additional funding awards include a National Endowment for the Arts "Art Works" grant. Brackett has published two e-books, a fantasy time-travel book "Girl Murders" and a children's book "Angela and the Gray Mare," available at Amazon.com. Her traditional print publications include her picture book, "What Is My Name?" (2012) and more than 120 articles and stories for adults and young adults. Her 15 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. Her University website address is http://www.park.edu/faculty-and-staff/people/brackett-virginia.
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