LAURIE PERRY VAUGHEN
is an award-winning poet and educator with two new chapbook collections of poems, Fine Tuning, and What Our Voices Carry.
Vaughen completed her MFA with the Sewanee School of Letters at the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee. She also holds an MA in English and a BS in sociology and anthropology from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.
Her poems, set to music by Atlanta composer Jeff Crompton and billed as “Billie Holiday on the Radio,” have been featured at Georgia Center for the Book in Atlanta, Word of [South] Festival of Literature and Music in Tallahassee, Florida, and Jazzanooga for Jazz Appreciation Month (JAM Fest 2017) in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
Vaughen’s lyric poems evoke moments lived in the margins of rural and urban life, with a poetics intent on musicality, surprising turns, and strong imagery. Her work is influenced by such women writers as Louise Gluck and Claudia Emerson.
Vaughen is the recipient of the James Dickey Award from Lullwater Review at Emory University, and the Amon Liner Award from the Greensboro Review at UNCG. Such literary journals as Crab Orchard Review, Chattahoochee Review, Greensboro Review, Cold Mountain Review, The Other Side, Birmingham Poetry Review, Laurel Review, and Minnesota Review have published her poems.
Vaughen lives in Nashville, Tennessee, and works at Abingdon Press as a book editor for academic and leadership titles.
To schedule readings: Contact the poet at laurievaughen@gmail.com.
Interviews, reviews, and recordings:
East Side Storytellin’ 138 (Sept. 2018) in Nashville
Paik: “Embracing Billie Holiday”: The Pulse (2017) in Chattanooga
Shadows and Words, New Dischord Festival of Intermedia, Chattanooga
Turning the Field: The Poetry of Laurie Perry Vaughen , Poet and critic Michael Theune (2017)
ArtsATL review by Doug DeLoach: “Billie Holiday on the Radio” at EyeDrum, Atlanta, July 2015
Laurie Vaughen on nature and poetry: Pecha Kucha CHA v. 11 (2012)
Meacham Writers’ Workshop Poetry Reading: Poet Laurie Perry Vaughen
Reading with Fellowship of Southern Writers’ poet/farmer Wendell Berry: Farm Dedication
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