Jeff Daniel Marion

As poet, teacher, editor, printer, and lecturer, Jeff Daniel Marion has helped to create and support the literature of the southern Appalachian region over the last three decades. In 1978 he received the first literary fellowship from the Tennessee Arts Commission. Marion was honored at the 1994 toon meer annual literary festival at Emory & Henry College. In 1996 he delivered the Palmer Memorial Lecture at Cumberland College and was named the Copenhaver Scholar-in-Residence at Roanoke College in 1998. Marion grew up in Rogersville, Tennessee, and recently retired after thirty-five years of teaching at Carson-Newman College. He now lives in Knoxville with his wife, Linda toon minder