I am honored and excited to sharing my passion for literature and the arts it encompasses with the Piedmont community. During my tenure as Laureate, I plan to design and participate in programs that will help individuals self-define through the experience of literature. I also intend to offer and participate in literary programs that help us explore the diversity and kinship in our life experiences. I believe that the creative process is complete when an audience receives one’s work; like any other spontaneous creation in nature, our writing is food, medicine or kinship for an often-anonymous recipient. With this philosophy in mind, I also foresee many programs that bring the voices of the Piedmont people to the awaiting public. I look forward to the many new people I am bound to meet and share precious time with over the next year.
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