ABOUT MRS. GREGORY!                        

Mrs. Gregory is a teacher and writer living in Virginia Beach, VA.  Currently I am teaching Honors English 11 and English 11 at Ocean Lakes High School, where I also sponsor the Creative Writing Club. See our link on the Front Page!

                                                                  You can contact me at:       Anne.Gregory2@vbschools.com

My favorite author: Toss-up between William Faulkner and Eudora Welty

Ask me about: my 90-pound Labrador Retriever!

Education:                                                                                                                              Professional Affiliations:

BA, English, Randolph-Macon College, Ashland, VA                                                                 The Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP)

MFA, Creative Writing, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA                                                   Teachers and Writer's Collaborative

                                                                                                                                               Society for the Study of Southern Literature (SSSL) 

That's me on the far left, at a conference that I recently co-directed at Old Dominion University, "So You Think You Can Write? Straight Talk About Publishing." Beside me, in the pink coat, is the other Co-Director, Kathy Fowler, poet/editor Richard Jones, and poet Luisa Igloria.

Photo credit: Luisa Igloria, March 29, 2008

Areas of Academic Interest:                                                                                                                                                           

Creative Writing

Twentieth Century Southern American Literature and Culture

Narrative Structure

Recent Professional Activities and Accomplishments:

• April 17-20, 2008: Attended Biennial Conference of the Society for the Study of Southern Literature: "Southern Roots and Routes," College of William and Mary
• April 5-6, 2008: Attended Publishing Conference, "Writers Connect" at Johns Hopkins University
• July 2007-March 2008: Founder and Conference Co-Director, "So You Think You Can Write? Straight Talk About Publishing," Old Dominion University, March 29, 2008
• 2007: Literary Festival Advisory Committee, 30^th Annual Old Dominion University Literary Festival, “Tradition and the Individual Voice,” October 1-4, 2007.
• March 17, 2007: Delivered Presentation entitled “Successfully Evaluating Student Writing In the Digital Age” at Old Dominion’s 28^th Annual Conference on the Teaching of Writing
• April 22, 2006: participant in assessment group to evaluate critical thinking and writing
  August 2006: Trained in the use of Digital Portfolios by Dr. Kathleen Yancey (through Virginia Beach Public Schools)
• 2006- present: Adjunct Instructor of English, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA ( English 300: Creative Writing;  English 336: The Short Story; English 144: American Writers, American Experiences; English 111: Compositon and Rhetoric ; IDS 300: Interdisciplinary Studies)
• 2006-present:  Committee member, "High Schools that Work" grant-writing committee, Ocean Lakes High School

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