Emery
L. Campbell is an award-winning writer of poetry and short works of fiction
and nonfiction. In May 2005 Multicultural Books of Richmond, B.C., published his
first volume of poetry, This Gardener’s Impossible Dream: A Not So Green Thumb
(Or Why I Took Up Poetry Instead), a collection of sixty-nine original works as
well as ten poems translated from the French. The volume has been nominated for
the 2006 Georgia Author of the Year Award. The price is US$15 plus postage TBA
depending on destination. Payment by cash, check, or PayPal accepted.
Campbell’s poetry has appeared in Light, Midwest
Poetry Review, Poets’ Forum, Romantics Quarterly, and others; in various
anthologies, magazines, and newsletters; and on the Internet. His work has won
awards from the National Federation of State Poetry Societies, the Georgia
Writers Association, and numerous individual state poetry organizations.
Campbell is a past vice president and long-time
member of the Georgia Poetry Society. He also belongs to the Utah State Poetry
Society, the Southeastern Writers Association, and the Georgia Writers
Association. He contributes a bi-monthly column on grammar and usage to the
newsletter of the latter organization. He was born in Monroe, WI, and has lived
abroad for many years in France, England, and Argentina. Since early 1988,
Campbell and his wife, Hettie, a native of the Netherlands, have lived in
Lawrenceville, GA. The couple has two grown sons.
Emery
L. Campbell is an award-winning writer of poetry and short works of fiction
and nonfiction. In May 2005 Multicultural Books of Richmond, B.C., published his
first volume of poetry, This Gardener’s Impossible Dream: A Not So Green Thumb
(Or Why I Took Up Poetry Instead), a collection of sixty-nine original works as
well as ten poems translated from the French. The volume has been nominated for
the 2006 Georgia Author of the Year Award. The price is US$15 plus postage TBA
depending on destination. Payment by cash, check, or PayPal accepted.