Eric Nelson Professor Department of Writing & Linguistics 1120 C Newton Hall, Box 8026 Georgia Southern University Statesboro, GA 30460 enelson@georgiasouthern.edu 912-478-5566

    Eric Nelson received his B.A. in English from Virginia Tech (1975) and his M.A. from the Johns Hopkins University Writing Seminars (1977). His poems have appeared in many journals, including Poetry, The Southern Review, Missouri Review, Poetry Northwest, The Christian Science Monitor, and Oxford American. He has been a Featured Poet on Poetry magazine's website and on Verse Daily and Poetry Daily. Several anthologies, including A New Geography of Poets, (University of Arkansas Press); I Feel A Little Jumpy Around You, (Simon and Schuster); and Georgia Voices: Poetry (University of Georgia Press), also contain his poetry.