L. LAMAR WILSON
P.O. Box 4943, Chapel Hill, NC 27516
(770) 851-0277 | [email protected] | www.linkedin.com/in/llamarwilson
EDUCATION
PhD, English
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
In progress
MFA, Creative Writing
Virginia Tech
Master’s Thesis: ‚All-American: Poems‛
May 2010
B.S., Newspaper Journalism
Florida A&M University (FAMU)
English Minor, Summa Cum Laude
April 2001
AWARDS/HONORS
2010, 2008 Finalist, New Letters Poetry Prize
2010, 2007 National Association of Black Journalists Salute to Excellence Award for copy-editing
2009 International Reginald Shepherd Memorial Poetry Prize Finalist, Knockout
2008 Emily Morrison Poetry Prize, Virginia Tech
2004-06 Atlanta Journal-Constitution Best of Quarter headline commendations
2001 FAMU SJMGC Top Graduate
2000 Hearst Foundation Award nominee, for commentary in The Famuan on the presidential election
2000 Your Capital Bureau Top Star Award, Gadsden County (Fla.) Times coverage
FELLOWSHIPS/SCHOLARSHIPS
2010-15 Teaching Fellowship, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
2008-09, ’11 Cave Canem Foundation Fellowship
2007-10 Alfred E. Knobler Fellowship, Virginia Tech Graduate Teaching Assistant
2007 Callaloo Writers Workshops Fellowship
2008, 2000 Dow Jones Newspaper Fund Scholarship
2002 National Council of Editorial Writers Fellowship
2000 Peggy Peterman Scholarship, Poynter Foundation & St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times
1997-2001 FAMU Presidential Scholar & Florida Bright Futures Scholar
1999 National Association of Black Journalists Scholarship
1997 Tallahassee Democrat Scholarship
PUBLICATIONS
Poetry
‚Picky: Izola Ware Curry‛ and ‚Times Like These: Marianna, Florida.‛ Callaloo. (forthcoming)
‚Ars Poetica: Nov. 7, 2008.‛ The 100 Best African-American Poems (But I Cheated). Ed. Nikki Giovanni (forthcoming,
Fall 2010)
‚HeLa‛ & ‚Ghazal of the Naptime Blues.‛ Obsidian. 9.2: 89-90
‚We Do Not Know Her Name.‛ Poetry Society of America’s Ars Poetica companion/online exhibition. March 2010.
‚Le Petit Mort,‚ ‚Drapetomania: Morning Dew,‛ ‚Chooseday!‛ Mythium. 1.2 (Spring 2010): 83-86
‚Dreamboys.‛ Rattle 31 (Summer 2009): 142-43
‚We Do Not Know Her Name‛ & ‚Lost & Found.‛ Crab Orchard Review 14.2 (Summer/Fall 2009): 224-26
‚Drive-by.‛ Reverie 3 (Fall 2009): 28-29
Nonfiction (as L.L. Wilson and Lamar Wilson)
‚One Man’s Horizons Opened Through E. Lynn Harris's Unabashed Romances.‛ Washington Post. 24 July 2009.
‚Moore, Belle: Fleshing Out Their Faith.‛ Washington Post. 17 June 2008.
‚Q&A / NIKKI GIOVANNI: ‘You have to learn to trust yourself.’ ‛ Atlanta Journal-Constitution. 30 January 2007.
‚Morrison brings us face to face with the blood, pain of slavery.‛ Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. 24 May 2003.
‚Singing with dignity and defiance: Simone's songs, style demanded attention.‛ 22 April 2003.
‚Seeing ‘Souls of Black Folk’ through prism of a century.‛ Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. 4 April 2003.
‚Taking a personal lesson from Cornel West.‛ Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. 26 October 2002.
‚Spirit of Donny Hathaway lives on in today's young artists.‛ Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. 3 February 2002.
‚The Handicap of ‘Minority.’ ‛ Press On! Summer 1999.
Book Reviews
‚The Beauty of Troubled Tongues.‛ Post No Ills. January 2010.
‚Rousing ‘Song’ rises with Angelou's tale of pain, persistence.‛ Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. 13 April 2002.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS/READINGS
‚The Life In-Between in Cane and Quicksand: The Economic Quandaryof the Mulatto in a New Negro World.‛ 95th
Association for the Study of African American Life and History Convention. Raleigh, NC. October 2010.
‚73 Poems for 73 Years: Celebrating the Life of Lucille Clifton.‛ Reader. James Madison University, Harrisonburg,
Va. September 2010.
‚Navigating ‘This Maze of Daedal Paths’: An H.D. Primer on Desire.‛ Virginia Tech English Graduate Conference.
Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va. February 2010.
‚Embracing the Elephants in Your Classrooms: How Linda Flower’s Theories on Intercultural Rhetoric Can Deepen
Composition Students’ Literacy About Difference.‛ Expanding Literacy Studies Conference, Ohio State University,
Columbus, Ohio, April 2009.
‚The Allure of the Alley and Forbidden Love in Helene Johnson’s Poetics.‛ Virginia Tech English Graduate
Conference. Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va. February 2009.
‚Parable of the Schoolteacher: Chooseday!‛ Reader. ‚Rev. Glenn Orr & Nikki Giovanni Presents ‘Make a Joyful
Noise: An Evening of Spirituals & Poetry.’ ‛ St. Paul AME Church, Blacksburg, Va., December 2009.
‚ ‘A Prayer for the Phlebotomist’ and Other Poems.‛ Virginia Tech English Graduate Conference, Virginia Tech,
Blacksburg, Va., February 2009.
‚ ‘Ghazal of the Naptime Blues’ and Other Poems.‛ Reader. Virginia Tech English Graduate Conference, Virginia
Tech, Blacksburg, Va., March 2008.
‚ ‘In Search of Abe’ and Other Poems.‛ Reader. Callaloo Writers Workshop, Texas A&M University, College Station,
Texas, August 2007.
PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill Instructor, Composition (August 2010-Present)
Virginia Tech Instructor, Creative Writing (January 2010-May 2010)
Virginia Tech Instructor, Composition (January 2008-December 2009)
Washington Post Style Copy Editor/Freelance Feature Reporter (May 2008-Present)
Atlanta Journal-Constitution Copy Editor/Line Editor/Freelance Feature Reporter (January 2004-August 2007)
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Features Copy Editor/Freelance Feature Reporter (October 2001-January 2004)
Atlanta Journal-Constitution Business Copy Editor (June-August 2001)
Capital Outlook Black History Editor (January-August 2001)
Tallahassee Democrat News Copy Editor (September-December 2000)
St. Petersburg Times Metro Desk Copy Editor – Peggy Peterman Scholar (June-August 2000, Dow Jones intern)
Philadelphia Inquirer Features Copy Editor (June-August 1999)
Unity News Copy Editor/Reporter, UNITY ’99 Conference, Seattle (July 1999)
Ocala Star-Banner General Assignment Reporter/Copy Editor (May-July 1998)
The Famuan, Copy Desk Chief, Managing Editor, Columnist, Deputy Desk Chief/Assistant Copy Desk Chief,
Assistant News Editor – Administration, Staff Writer (August 1997-December 2000)
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
ENGL 101, 102: Composition and Rhetoric – UNC-Chapel Hill (Fall 2010-Present)
ENGL 1105: Freshman Composition – Virginia Tech (Fall 2008, Fall 2009)
ENGL 1106: Freshman Composition – Virginia Tech (Spring 2008, Spring 2009)
ENGL 2744: Introduction to Creative Writing – Virginia Tech (Spring 2010)
Poetry & English Instructor/Tutor (Grades 6-8 & 10) – Virginia Tech Upward Bound (Spring 2008-August 2010)
RESEARCH & TEACHING INTERESTS
Afro-modernism, 20th-century American and ethnic American poetry and poetics; rhetoric/composition (crosscultural literacy, politics of identity and genre studies); multimedia copy-editing and reporting
AFFILIATIONS
Association of Writers and Writing Programs, College Language Association, American Copy Editors Society,
National Association of Black Journalists, Kappa Tau Alpha Honor Society
ACADEMIC REFERENCES
Creative Writing
Erika Meitner
Assistant Professor
Virginia Tech
(540) 231-7728
[email protected]
Bob Hicok
Associate Professor
Virginia Tech
(540) 231-4479
[email protected]
Rhetoric/Composition & American Literature
Paul Heilker
Associate Professor
Virginia Tech
(540) 231-8444
[email protected]
Thomas Gardner
Clifford A. Cutchins III Professor of English
Virginia Tech
(540) 231-6901
[email protected]
Journalism, Academic
Joe and Louise Ritchie
Professors/Famuan Adviser (’97-00)
Florida A&M University
(850) 599-3880/(850) 385-4954
[email protected]/[email protected]
Valerie D. White
Famuan Adviser (‘00-‘03)
FAMU Journalism Professor
(850) 599-3650
[email protected]
Journalism, Newsroom
Ron Smith
AME – News Operations
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
(414) 224-2160
[email protected]
Morieka V. Johnson
Director of Communications
Atlanta Public Schools
(404) 457-4550
[email protected]
Nikki Giovanni
Distinguished Professor
Virginia Tech
(540) 231-7785
[email protected]
Doug Norwood
Features Copy Chief
Washington Post
(202) 334-4903
[email protected]