Nancy Dillingham

Big Ivy poet Nancy Dillingham is a sixth-generation Dillingham from the same-named community in western North Carolina. She is the author of nine books of poetry and short fiction and a fictionalized memoir. She and her co-editor Celia Miles have published four anthologies of WNC women writers. Her volume of poems Home was nominated for a Southern Independent Booksellers' Alliance award (SIBA). She lives in Asheville, NC.