Steven Harvey is the author of three books of personal essays: A Geometry of Lilies, Lost in Translation, and Bound for Shady Grove. He is a professor emeritus of English and creative writing at Young Harris College, senior editor at River Teeth magazine, and a founding member of the nonfiction faculty in the Ashland University M.F.A. program in creative writing. He lives in the north Georgia mountains where he writes and sings and plays banjo, guitar, and ukulele with the musical group Butternut Creek and Friends. He is also the hardly humble creator of The Humble Essayist, an on-line site for promoting personal essays and reflective memoirs.
Discipline:
Literature
Steven Harvey
Discipline:
Literature
Region: Young Harris, GA
MacDowell Fellowships: 1994
Studios
Star
Steven Harvey worked in the Star studio.
Funded by Alpha Chi Omega, a national fraternity founded in 1885, Star Studio — built in 1911–1912 — was the first studio given to the residency by an outside organization. To this day, Alpha Chi sorority pledges learn the story of Star Studio and its role in supporting American arts and letters. Beginning as a nicely proportioned…