HURLOW, Marcia L. 1952-

PERSONAL: Born August 22, 1952, in Mt. Vernon, OH; daughter of Jack C. L. (an electrician) and Jean (a homemaker) Hurlow; married Gregory T. Stump (a professor), December 10, 1977; children: Marjorie. Education: Baldwin Wallace College, B.A. (English), 1974; Ohio State University, M.A. (journalism), 1977, Ph.D. (rhetoric and applied linguistics), 1979; Vermont College, M.F.A. (creative writing), 1986. Hobbies and other interests: Music, linguistics.

ADDRESSES: Home—4720 Matthew Court, Lexington, KY 40514-1453. Office—Asbury College, 1 Macklem Drive, Wilmore, KY 40390. E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER: Asbury College, Wilmore, KY, professor of English and journalism, beginning 1983.

AWARDS, HONORS: VCCA fellowship, Kentucky Foundation for Women, 1989; chapbook contest winner, State Street Press, 1991, for Aliens Are Intercepting My Brain Waves; chapbook contest winner, Riverstone Press, 1994, for Dangers of Travel; fellowship, Kentucky Arts Council, 1999.

WRITINGS:

Aliens Are Intercepting My Brain Waves (poetry), State Street Press (Brockport, NY), 1991.

Dangers of Travel (poetry), Riverstone Press (West Chester, PA), 1994.

Contributor of poems to journals, including Poetry, Poetry Northwest, Birmingham Poetry Review, Chicago Review, Another Chicago Magazine, Poetry East, Zone 3, Nimrod, Malahat Review, Poetry Wales, American Poetry Review, Wind, and Slant.

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Prairie Schooner, summer, 1994, Jeff Worley, review of Aliens Are Intercepting My Brain Waves, p. 166.