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Website: http://captain.park.edu/VirginiaBrackett/

Virginia Brackett, Ph.D, serves at Park University (MO) as an Associate Professor of English; Chairperson of the English and Modern Languages Department; and Director of the Park University Degree Program with Honors (www.park.edu/honors). She received Outstanding Faculty Awards in 2006 and 2008, and in 2010 was named Park's Distinguished Humanities Professor. She also directs the Park University Ethnic Voices Poetry Series, a Missouri Arts Council grant-funded program in its fourth year (www.park.edu/ethnicpoetry) and has been named a 2010 Distinguished alumni by Pittsburg State University where she received her MA degree. Brackett has published more than 120 articles and stories for adults and young adults and her 13 books have received various citations. Her first book, "Elizabeth Cary: Writer of Conscience" (Morgan Reynolds) was included in the 1997 New York Library Catalog of Recommended Reading for Teens. "Restless Genius: The Story of Virginia Woolf "(Morgan Reynolds) was a recommended feminist book for youth by Amelia Bloomer Project, 2005 (Feminist Task Force of the Social Responsibilities Round Table, ALA); a PSLA YA Top Forty Nonfiction 2004 Title, and was included in “Writers of Imagination” series, Tristate Series of Note, 2005. "A Home in the Heart: The Story of Sandra Cisneros" (Morgan Reynolds), was a Tristate Book of Note and included in the PSLA YA Top Forty Nonfiction 2004 Titles. "The Facts on File Companion to the British Novel: Beginnings through the 19th Century" is a recommended purchase for libraries by the publication "Choice". "The Facts on File Companion to British Poetry: 17th & 18th Centuries" was named a Booklist Editor's Choice, Reference Sources, 2008. Brackett also holds degrees in Business and Medical Technology. Her University website address is http://captain.park.edu/VirginiaBrackett.

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