Biography:

Educator, poet. Born– Jan. 13, 1935 in Tuscaloosa, Ala. Parents– Frank Pettus and Zeila (Stovall) Steele. Married– Peggy Myrick on April 27, 1958. Children– Two. Education– University of Alabama, B.A.; University of Chattanooga, M.Ed.; University of Tennessee, Ed.D. Taught Baylor School for Boys (Chattanooga), 1960-1964; Webb School (Knoxville), 1964-1967; University of Tennessee at Martin, 1967-1968; Western Kentucky University since 1968. Member Modern Language Association of America and South Atlantic Modern Language Association.

Source:

Contemporary Authors, Vol. 37R.

Publication(s):

Walking to the Waterfall; Poems of 1968. Martin, Tenn.; Tennessee Poetry Press, 1969.

Compiler:

Poetry Southeast, 1950-1970. Martin, Tenn.; Tennessee Poetry Journal, 1968.