|  | Berry professor wins $10,000 prize for manuscript | | 03/30/07
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Dr. Sandra Meek, associate professor of English, rhetoric and writing at Berry College, has been awarded the largest book-publication prize for poetry in the United States for her third book-manuscript of poems, "Biogeography."
The Dorset Prize consists of a $10,000 cash for the author and a guarantee of national and international distribution for the winning entry. "Biogeography" will be released by Tupelo Press in spring 2008.
A faculty member at Berry since 1996, Meek is an award-winning poet whose work has been published in many literary journals, among them Poetry, AGNI, The Kenyon Review, Conjunctions, Shenandoah, The Iowa Review and Prairie Schooner. Twice, she has been recognized with the Georgia Author of the Year Award for poetry by the Georgia Writers Association, first for "Nomadic Foundations" (2003) and later for "Burn" (2006). She also received the Peace Corps Writers Award for Poetry in 2003 and is the author of "The Circumference of Arrival."
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