Irene Blair HoneycuttBorn in Jacksonville, FL, Irene Blair Honeycutt, award-winning poet and teacher, is the author of four previously published poetry books. Her debut collection won Sandstone Publishing's New South Poetry Book Regional Contest. Her third book, Before te Light Changes (Main Street Rag), was a finalist for the Brockman-Campbell Book Award. During her long tenure at Central Piedmont Community College in Charlotte, NC, she received the Award for Excellence in Teaching and founded the Spring Literary Festival (later named Sensoria), which had a twenty-nine-year run. Other honors include the college's Irene Blair Honeycutt Distinguished Lectureship, and the Irene Blair Honeycutt Lifetime Achievement and Legacy Awards, established in her name. Read More Read Less