Gary Copeland Lilley is a North Carolina native, and now lives and teaches in Winston-Salem. He received the 1996 and 2000 DC Commission for the Arts Fellowship for Poetry, and earned his MFA from the Warren Wilson College Program for Writers. He is a member of the Black Rooster Collective, a Cave Canem fellow, and has taught in the Undergraduate Writing Program at Warren Wilson College, and in The Great Smokies Writing Program at the University of North Carolina-Asheville. He has been a faculty poet at the Port Townsend Writers Conference and a visiting writer at Colby College, the University of Arizona, Goddard College, and the Institute of American Indian Art.

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