Marjorie Hudson

Marjorie Hudson was born in a small town in Illinois, grew up in Washington, D.C., and now writes and lives in Chatham County, North Carolina. She is author of Accidental Birds of the Carolinas, a PEN/Hemingway Honorable Mention, and Searching for Virginia Dare, a North Carolina Arts Council Notable Book, just released in an expanded edition as a Press 53 Carolina Classics Editions. Hudson is a graduate of American University and holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Warren Wilson College. She teaches fiction and nonfiction writing and lectures for the North Carolina Humanities Council Road Scholars on history and creative writing technique. She is the recipient of two Pushcart Prize Special Mentions and a North Carolina Arts Council Fellowship. She has published stories, essays, and poems in five anthologies and many magazines and journals.