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 Dr. Greg Miller |
 Dr. Sandra Murchison |
Greg Miller, professor of English, and Sandra Murchison, associate professor of art, are nominees for category awards from the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters. Winners will be announced at a gala in June at the Mississippi Museum of Art in Jackson.
Miller is one of six nominees for the poetry category. Other nominees are: Ann Fisher-Wirth, Jack Crocker, Larry Johnson, D.C. Berry and Kendall Dunkelberg. His book of poetry, Watch, was released last fall. It was featured on Poetry Daily in December.
Murchison, chair of the college's art department, is one of eight nominees for the visual arts category. Other nominees are: Carole Piggott, Duncan Baird, Charles Crossley, Millie Howell, Chris Miner, Lee Rennigar and Elizabeth Veglia. Her mixed media pieces about the Mississippi Blues Trail historical markers have been exhibited at several solo exhibitions including Delta State University, Fischer Galleries and Millsaps College.
The MIAL Awardsrecognizes works first shown, published or performed in 2009 in the categories of poetry, fiction, non-fiction, visual arts, photography and music composition, both classical and popular. Artists must have significant ties to the state of Mississippiand must have been nominated by an MIAL member. Judges in each category are chosen from outside Mississippi.
William Ferris, the Joel R. Williamson Eminent Professor of History and senior associate director of the Center for the Study of the American South at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, will be the recipient of MIAL's Lifetime Achievement Award. Master of Ceremonies for the Awards Gala is Richard Howorth, owner of Square Books in Oxford.
Winners in each category will receive a cash prize and a Mississippi-made gift. Past winners include Willie Morris, Natasha Trethewey, Richard Ford, Ellen Douglas, Samuel Jones and Walker Percy.
Anyone may join MIAL and thus be eligible to nominate artists in each category. For more information about membership and about attending the awards ceremony and banquet on June 5, 2010, visit the website http://www.ms-arts-letters.org/.
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