{"id":2051,"date":"2012-07-18T11:35:02","date_gmt":"2012-07-18T18:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=2051"},"modified":"2012-07-18T11:35:02","modified_gmt":"2012-07-18T18:35:02","slug":"walker-sue-brannan-1940","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=2051","title":{"rendered":"WALKER, SUE BRANNAN, 1940-"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Teacher; college professor; writer; editor.\u00a0 Born&#8211; April 6, 1940.  Parents&#8211;  Louis Wesley and Katherine (King) Brannan.   Married&#8211;  Ronald Walker.  Children&#8211;  Three.  Education&#8211;  University of Alabama, B.S.; Tulane University, M.Ed., M.A., Ph.D. (1981).\u00a0 Taught English at Foley High School; Newcomb College; University of South Alabama, 1979-. Stokes Distinguished Professor of English at USA.  Adjunct Professor of Editing and Publishing, Spring Hill College.  City editor, Alabama Sun, 1980-1981; editor and publisher, Negative Capability, 1981-. Received research grant from Tulane Graduate School to study McCuller&#8217;s Archives; several merit awards for poetry, fiction and nonfiction.  Gave workshops, lectures and poetry readings.  Served on several college and state committees. Published poems, stories and articles in magazines and anthologies. Nominated for a Pulitzer Price for <em>Blood Must Bear Your Name.<\/em>\u00a0 10th Alabama Poet Laureate, 2003-2012.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sue Brannan Walker, Mobile, Ala.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Blood\u00a0Must Bear Your Name.\u00a0 Amherst Writers and Artists Press, 2002.<\/p>\n<p>Faulkner Suite.\u00a0 Ragland, AL:\u00a0 Oeoco Press, 2008.<\/p>\n<p>Greatest Hits, 1982-2002.\u00a0 Johnstown, Ohio; Pudding House Publications, 2003.<\/p>\n<p>Pokeberry Inspiration.\u00a0 2008.<\/p>\n<p>Reuben&#8217;s Mobile.\u00a0 Mobile:\u00a0 Negative Capability, 2007.<\/p>\n<p>Shorings.\u00a0 Fullerton, CA; South Coast Press, 1992.<\/p>\n<p>Traveling My Shadow.  Mobile, Ala.;  Negative Capability Press, 1982.<\/p>\n<p>Louisiana Creole Poems.  Mobile, Ala.;  Negative Capability Press, 1982.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joint_Publications;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s Good Weather for Fudge;\u00a0 Conversations with Carson McCullers.\u00a0 Montgomery; New South Publishers, 2003.<\/p>\n<p>Life on the Line; Selections on Words and Healing.\u00a0 Mobile; Negative Capability Press, 1992.<\/p>\n<p>Ways of Knowing; Essays on Marge Piercy.\u00a0 Negative Capability, 1991.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joint editor;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Whatever Remembers Us; An Anthology of Alabama Poetry.\u00a0 Mobile; Negative Capability Press, 2007<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Teacher; college professor; writer; editor.\u00a0 Born&#8211; April 6, 1940. Parents&#8211; Louis Wesley and Katherine (King) Brannan. Married&#8211; Ronald Walker. Children&#8211; Three. Education&#8211; University of Alabama, B.S.; Tulane University, M.Ed., M.A., Ph.D. (1981).\u00a0 Taught English at Foley High School; Newcomb College; University of South Alabama, 1979-. Stokes Distinguished Professor of English at USA. Adjunct Professor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-w-z"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2051\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}