Georgann Eubanks
Georgann Eubanks is known for her guidebooks that invite readers to explore the literary, cultural, culinary, and ecological heritage of the South. With her first volume of poetry, Rural Astronomy, Eubanks invites new explorations. These poems shift between childhood memories and her contemporary observations of the ongoing clash between Nature and human entitlement. With incisive vision and an occasional poke at the patriarchy, this memoir-in-poems hints at the magnitude of future degradations-by climate and human character-while inviting us to remember the guiding stars of a simpler past. For Eubanks, there are no brighter stars than her grandparents, Bomer and Stella, whose stories and lives frame these poems as well as Eubanks’ startlingly unique perspective. Rural Astronomy celebrates an adventurous life through poetry that is both personal and universal, reflective and prescient.
Eubanks is a widely published writer, Emmy-winning documentarian, and popular speaker. She received an NC Arts Council Fellowship, was one of the four founders of the NC Writers Network, and has served as chair of North Carolina Humanities, Arts North Carolina, and the NC Literary and Historical Society. She is director of the Table Rock Writers Workshop and the author of six books of nonfiction from the University of North Carolina Press, including her latest, The Fabulous Ordinary: Discovering the Natural Wonders of the Wild South. She is director and literary executor of the Paul Green Foundation. Rural Astronomy is her first poetry collection.
