Margery Bensey poetry, essays, articles, short stories, histories, genealogies, novels

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Margery Bensey
Knoxville, Tennessee
Member since: Mar, 2009
Last login: 09/21/2009
Last update : 03/27/2009
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I write poetry, essays, histories, short stories, and genealogies. Some of these have been published in the anthologies Breathing the Same Air, Knoxville Christmas 2008, HomeWorks, and Low Explosions; in the photojournal Park City; and in the newsletters Blackberry Corner, The Inkwell, The Record, and The Parkridge Press. My academic articles have been published in Assessment Update, Context, Staff Stuff, and Tennessee Today. I am working on a history of the antebellum section of my neighbohood, Searching fro Shieldstown, and a novel, Whiteacres.

I live at Blackberry Corner, a historic house in the Park City section of Knoxville, Tennessee, with my husband Michael Bensey, a dancer, and our son Kiernan, 15, a student and sometime actor.

I do historic research on my family and its branches: the Webers and Benseys, and also ancestors and collateral families: Brown, Cabbage, Canby, Davis, Davisson, Harvey, Hodson, Hughes, Inman, Janney, Lindsay, Macpherson, Miller, Moore, Myers, Sniffen, Taylor, Weber, Zubrik, and many more.

I have bachelor's and master's degrees in literature from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, where I worked as a writer, editor, researcher, and writing teacher for 25 years.

Graduate College/University	University of Tennessee, Knoxville, class of 1988
Graduate Area of Study	English and American literature
Undergraduate College/University	University of Tennessee, Knoxville, class of 1983
Undergraduate Area of Study	English and American literature; Greek, Latin, and Old English languages
High School	Harding High School, Marion, OH; Oak Ridge High School, Oak Ridge, TN, class of 1970
Academic Credentials	B.A., M.A.