Roy Neil Graves

I grew up in Medina, TN, near the mid-point of the ICRR between New Orleans and Chicago, attending college at nearby Union University in Jackson and earning academic degrees at Princeton (B.A. ’61), Duke (M.A. ’64), and Ole Miss (D.A. ’77). Since 1969 I’ve taught a wide range of English courses at the University of Tennessee at Martin, where I was the 1995-96 recipient of the Cunningham Teacher/Scholar Award. My publications, in addition to poems, include academic essays (especially on arcane game-playing elements in early verse texts) and a web site titled Shakespeare’s Lost Sonnets at www.utm.edu/staff/ngraves/shakespeare. My outside interests include playing piano, choral singing, running, and log-cabin reconstruction. My children are Anna (Yale ‘90, Simmons); Ben (Wesleyan ‘93, Washington State); and Molly (Princeton ’98, UC Santa Cruz). See the overview essay in Contemporary Authors (Gale, 2002) and the review by David Breidenbach of the chapbook Somewhere on the Interstate in Hollins Critic, 1 June 1988. (Link: http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-133025572.html)