Marion Garrard Barnwell

Marion Garrard Barnwell is professor emerita of English at Delta State University. She is editor of A Place Called Mississippi: Collected Narratives; coauthor of Touring Literary Mississippi; and coeditor of Fannye Cook: Mississippi’s Pioneering Conservationist, all published by University Press of Mississippi. Her fiction has been published in the edited collections Mad Dogs and Moonshine; Christmas Stories from Mississippi; and On the Way Home; and her essays have appeared in magazines such as Delta Magazine and Portico. She is a board member and past president of Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters and Jackson Friends of the Library.