Betty Adcock

Adcock's work has been cited as a major influence on substantial artists such as 2006 Pulitzer Poetry winner Claudia Emerson.

Betty Adcock studied at North Carolina State University and Texas Tech University. Employment is recorded with Meredith College and Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers. Works named in the authority record are Intervale: New and Selected Poems. Distinctions recorded are Guggenheim Fellowship and North Carolina Award for Literature.

The daughter of a landowner and a schoolteacher, Adcock grew up in San Augustine, Texas, a small farming community. The landscape of the area, a mix of West and Deep South, influenced her work. She moved to North Carolina after her marriage to Donald Adcock, who died in 2011. The two have a daughter, Sylvia. Adcock is primarily self-taught. She has no degrees, though she attended Texas Tech University, Goddard College, and North Carolina State University. She studied and wrote poetry for more than ten years while working in the business world. After her first book was published, she was awarded a teaching residency at Duke University. Other teaching positions followed, most notably her ongoing position as Writer in Residence at Meredith College, which she held until 2006.

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Adcock's poetry collections include the following: • Walking out: Poems, 1975 • Nettles: Poems, 1983 • Beholdings: Poems, 1988 • The Difficult Wheel: Poems, 1995 • Intervale: New and Selected Poems, 2001 (winner of the Poets' Prize and a finalist for the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize) • Slantwise: Poems, 2008 (Louisiana State University Press L.E. Phillabaum Prize volume for 2008) • Widow Poems, 2014 • Rough Fugue, 2017