Betty S. Adcock

Background

Adcock, Betty S. was born on September 16, 1938 in San Augustine, Texas, United States. Daughter of Ralph Lafayette and Sylvia (Hudgins) Sharp.

Education

Author of six poetry collections, she has served as a faculty member in the Warren Wilson College Master of Fine Arts Program for Writers in Asheville, North Carolina and in the Writer-in-Residence program at Meredith College in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Career

She has also held residencies at Lenoir-Rhyne College, Kalamazoo College, and Duke University, and has twice served as Visiting Distinguished Professor at North Carolina State University. The landscape of the area, a mix of West and Deep South, influenced her work. The two have a daughter, Sylvia.

Adcock is primarily self-taught.

She has no degrees, though she attended Texas Technical University, Goddard College, and North Carolina State University. She studied and wrote poetry for more than ten years while working in the business world.

After her first book was published, she was awarded a teaching residency at Duke University. Other teaching positions followed, most notably her ongoing position as Writer in Residence at Meredith College, which she held until 2006.

Achievements

• Betty S. Adcock has been listed as a noteworthy Poet, humanities educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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  • Intervale: New and Selected Poems

    ( With a penetrating eye and a deep and spiritual intelli...)

  • Beholdings: Poems

    (Book by Adcock, Betty)

  • Nettles: Poems

    (Book by Adcock, Betty)

  • The Difficult Wheel: Poems (Louise Lindsey Merrick Natural)

    (Book by Adcock, Betty)

  • Walking out: Poems

    (Poetry. Author's hard to find first book. Signed and insc...)

  • Intervale New and Selected Poems
  • The Difficult Wheel (By: Betty Adcock) published: December, 1995
  • By Betty Adcock - Intervale: New and Selected Poems (2001-04-16) Paperback
  • Beholdings, Poems by Betty Adcock (1988-08-30)
  • Nettles: Poems by Betty Adcock (1983-12-01)

Membership

Member Poetry Society of America, Associated Writing Programs, North Carolina Writers Network.

Connections

Married Donald Brandt Adcock, June 24, 1957. 1 child, Sylvia Elizabeth.

Father:

Ralph Lafayette Sharp

Mother:

Sylvia (Hudgins) Sharp

Spouse:

Donald Brandt Adcock

child:

Sylvia Elizabeth Adcock