Nancy Rose

Nancy Rose was born on the Carter County, Kentucky farm, and

in the bed of her grandmother, Nancy Elizabeth Blevins Stevens,

who doctored people. She was named for "Aunt Nance" and her

paternal grandmother, Mary Allen "Molly" Womack Rose, a

teacher, artist and musician. Reared in eastern Kentucky, she is a

graduate of Prestonsburg schools and Berea College, with a B.A.

in English. She was secretary in the Political Science

Department at the University of Kentucky, before returning to

Berea to become Dean of Women in the Foundation School.

Deciding to teach full time, Nancy drove a blue VW bug to

Montana and discovered that western Montana is a lot like

eastern Kentucky ... beautiful trees, mountains and people. She

loved her students, the magic of teaching, seeing the lights go on

via poetry, mythology, science fiction, fantasy, modern media

and world literature, and she loved spending time out of doors.

She spent a summer in an English Institute at the University of

Montana, where she began her graduate study, and a summer in

the Appalachian Writer's Workshop at Hindman, Kentucky,

discovering James Still and his River of Earth and Gurney

Norman who took her to the local library to check out the only

copy of Divine Right's Trip.

Nancy has taught in China and traveled in Japan, Spain, the

Caribbean, and Italy. She has also taught at Flathead Valley

Community College and at the University of Montana. Her

poems have appeared in Mountain Life & Work, The Magazine of

the Appalachian South, and in Cut-Thru Review, The Big Sandy

Community and Technical College Literary Magazine.