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John Carlton Myatt Writing Scholarship
Winners and their Biographics Updated 9-21-07
Amy Bruner de Rodriguez profile updated
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Mel Gilles graduated Phi Beta Kappa from UNC-Chapel Hill and The University of Manchester, England in 1995 with a double degree in Anthropology and English Literature, and a minor in Creative Writing. She worked with at-risk youth and abused women and children across America both as a volunteer, a board member and an employee for various non-profit organizations from 1987 until 2001 In the fall of 2003, she left her desert hideaway in Moab, Utah for the Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, Mass. During her first semester, she fell ill with M.E. (otherwise known as CFIDS, CFS, or FM) and returned home to Greensboro to convalesce. Her essay, "The Politics of Victimization" was posted on the internet late in the fall after the 2006 presidential elections, read by over 2 million people, and reprinted in papers and journals nation-wide.
Currently, she growing toward vibrant health with the help of yoga, the Servant Leadership School, and her husband, with whom she is writing a book about the end of the world. The future, as always, is gloriously opaque.
9-13-07
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Melony Gilles
1991
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Johnny Knight resides in Chicago, Illinois with his wife Anne and their cat Ripley. Johnny and Anne recently celebrated their first wedding anniversary by eating large helpings of stale, frozen cake. Johnny has been working as a performing arts photogrpher for the past three years and he continues to pursue playwriting in his diminishing spare time. In July 2003, his play EXTREM UNCTION was featured in the Prop Theatre's National New Play festival.
Johnny is also a founding member of the Chicago Photography Center, a nonprofit photography education program. Despite having little formal education in photography, he is the instructor of two courses on Portraiture and Lighting. Every time a new class session starts, he's aware that his students may know more than he does. Fortunately, he has absorbed more than a little knowledge through teaching, and he feels less like a phony every day.
Johnny is extremely grateful for all of the opportunities that life has offered him, including the Myatt Scholarship. He would like to have taken advantage of those opportunities more fully. He would like to spend more time with friends, such as fellow Myatt Scholarship winner Kathryn Deaton, who lives within jogging distance. He would like more time to read. He would like more time to write. He would like to keep an open mind about the future.
UPDATED 5-19-04
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Johnny K. Knight
1992
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Carrie graduated from Pomona College in 2006 with a B.A. in Environmental Analysis then helped film a documentary about water quality problems in farmworker communities in the Central Valley of California. She worked for one semester as a research assistant in Archaeology and did an intern this Spring at the Goat Lady Diary in Randolph County, NC.
Presently, Carrie is living in Carrboro, NC and works in Pittsboro as an Americorps volunteer for the NC Rural Communities Assistance Project doing environmental health outreach work with latino communities in Chatham County. The main focus is lead poisoning.
The future may bring a degree in Geography after she gains more experience in agriculture. Carrie is interested in water sustainability, the human body and mind and how they connect, learning about plants, practicing yoga, and trying new things in general.
8-14-07
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Carrie Elisabeth Fields
2002
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Susan Young 1998
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Susan is presently in Atlanta, teaching language & learning differences at a private high school. Her spare time is devoted to earning her MFA in Children's Literature and is busy completing the 150 page thesis, hopefully, within a year. Susan received her undergratue degree from Warren Wilson College.
8-23-07
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Mariana graduated from the University of the South and is currently in the Doctorate Program at New York University, film and communication. Part time work includes video reviews in New York with the BBC.
5-13-03
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Mariana C. Johnson 1993
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Robert Trail 2001
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Sarah Sweeney 2000
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Lori McNeil 1997
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Sarah is a rising Senior at UNC-G and says she is having great fun. When selected as a JCM Winner, she was working on her first novel and now a rewrite is in progress. Sarah is waiting on a reply from 5 pieces of her poems submitted to The Southern Poetry Review and The Boston Review. Taking the GRE's this summer will prepar her for an MFA in Poetry, hopefully in New York City.
5-24-03
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Kathryn R. Deaton 1995
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Kathryn graduated from Warren Wilson College with a Bachelor of Arts in Creative Writing in 1999 and received a Master of Arts in Teaching from Columbia College in Chicago in 2003. She moved from Chicago to Raleigh in August of 2006 and teaches Third Grade at Farmington Woods Elementary. She and her husband, Joe, live with their two cats and one dog. Kathryn is working to make more time for writing in her life, along with other creative outlets such as bookmaking and practicing fiddle.
8-12-07
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Erin Pellarin 2005
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Lily Kuo 2003
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Amy Bruner de Rodriguez
1999
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Amy graduated form UNC-Asheville in 2004 iwth a BA in Literature and in 2006 began a small business in downtown Asheville called BEO JEWELRY. She designs one-of-a-kind jewelry for wholesale to boutiques in NC.
She recently married Carlos Roriguez who was born in Argentina and family now lives in Madrid, Spain. Amy is taking Spanish at the local Technical College and plans to continue Spanish at UNCA in the Spring.
New name for Amy is Amy Bruner de Rodriguez. 9-21-07
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