Background
Stocking, Marion Kingston was born on June 4, 1922 in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, United States. Daughter of William Frank and Louise Anne Kingston.
editor English language educator
Stocking, Marion Kingston was born on June 4, 1922 in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, United States. Daughter of William Frank and Louise Anne Kingston.
AB, Mount Holyoke College, 1943. Doctor of Philosophy, Duke University, 1952. Doctor of Letters (honorary), University Maine, 1992.
Instructor English University Maine, Orono, 1946-1948, University Colorado, Boulder, 1950-1954. From assistant professor to professor emerita Beloit (Wisconsin) College, from 1954. Faculty associate College of the Atlantic, Bar Harbor, Maine, since 1985.
Publication The Latona Press, Ellsworth, Maine, since 1978. President The Beloit Poetry Journal Foundation, since 1988. Panelist Maine Community Foundation, Ellsworth, 1988-1993.
Director Freshman English Beloit College, 1955-1963, director Porter Scholars Honours Program, 1967-1969, director Underclass Common Course, 1967-1970, chairperson Department English, 1978-1983.
Commnr. Maine Arts Commission, Augusta, since 1993, literature panel, 1984-1988, chair, 1987-1988. Panelist Maine Expansion Arts Program, 1988-1993. Founder, director Wisconsin-Minnesota Poetry Circuit.
Active Quoddy Regional Land Trust. Member American Association of University Women, Modern Language Association, Keats-Shelley Association American, Byron Society, Maine Writers and Publications Alliance, Sorrento Scientific Society, Phi Beta Kappa.
Married David Mackenzie Stocking, December 21, 1955 (deceased 1984). 1 stepchild: Frederick B.