Fred Chappell

Fred Chappell is the author of more than thirty books, including As If It Were: Poems (LSU, 2019), A Shadow of All Light: A Novel (Tor Books, 2016), Familiars: Poems (LSU, 2014), and Ancestors and Others: New and Selected Stories (St. Martin’s, 2009). He was awarded the Bollingen Prize in 1985 (with John Ashbery) and the Aiken-Taylor Award in 1997. He served as the Poet Laureate of North Carolina from 1997 to 2002.