• About Vicky:

Vicky Lettmann grew up in Wilmington, North Carolina. She graduated from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, with a degree in English. She went on to earn an M.A.T. in English (UNC-Chapel Hill), an M. A. in Comparative Literature (Indiana University), and an M.F.A. in Fiction Writing (Warren Wilson College.)

Vicky’s writing has appeared in Twenty-six Minnesota Writers as well as other publications. She is a recipient of a Loft-McKnight Fellowship. Her poems can be found in Beloved on the Earth: 150 Poems of Grief and Gratitude, and From Glory to Glory: An Anthology by Poetry in the Cathedral. Her essay, “Dolls, Death, and Pleasing Decay,” appeared in Minerva Rising. With Carol Roan, she is the co-editor of When Last on Mountain: The View from Writers over 50. She has published three collections of poetry: The Beach,  What Can Be Saved, and most recently, Listening to Chopin Late at Night. 

Vicky’s college teaching career began at Slippery Rock State University in Pennsylvania and continued at North Hennepin Community College in Minneapolis where she founded and edited the literary arts magazine, Under Construction. She served as an editor for Speakeasy, the literary magazine published by the Loft Literary Center where she taught many classes. Currently, she teaches writing workshops at BIG Arts in Sanibel, Florida.

About The Joy of Writing: 

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