Marianne Worthington Marianne Worthington

Marianne Worthington is on the faculty at University of the Cumberlands and the Kentucky Governors School for the Arts. Her poems have appeared in Shenandoah, Kalliope, The Louisville Review, Kaleidoscope, Natural Bridge, Wind, and other literary magazines. Her recently published poetry chapbook is entitled Larger Bodies Than Mine. She won the Sue Ellen Hudson Excellence In Writing Award in 2003 and was a 2005 finalist in the Sue Saniel Elkind Poetry Contest.

Marianne's reviews, essays, and other non-fiction have appeared in Appalachian Heritage, Appalachian Journal, Journal of Appalachian Studies, Mossy Creek Reader, Journal of Kentucky Studies, Louisville Magazine, Now & Then, and Arts Across Kentucky. Her prose and poetry are widely anthologized.

She has presented workshops and lectures for the Knoxville Writers Guild, Alabama Writers Conclave, New Opportunity School for Women, Montessori Schools in Knoxville, Kentucky Governors School for the Arts, Laurel County (KY) Public Library, Bellarmine University, Lincoln Memorial University, and Eastern Kentucky University. In Kentucky, she lives with her husband and two fabulously lazy dogs.

 

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