1999 - 2000
Cathy Smith Bowers is the author of four poetry collections and has been awarded a South Carolina Poetry Fellowship. Cathy Smith Bowers teaches in the MFA program in Creative Writing at Queens University of Charlotte. In 2010, she was named Poet Laureate of the state of North Carolina. Read more about her at http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/cathy-smith-bowers.