Suzanne Marrs Garners Acclaim for Life’s Work and ‘Meanwhile There Are Letters’
Suzanne Marrs, who retired in 2015 as the Eudora Welty Scholar-in-Residence at Millsaps College, continues to be acknowledged for her contributions to the body of Welty scholarship. In October she received the 2016 Non-fiction Author Award from the Mississippi Library Association (MLA). Marrs is shown here accepting the award at the MLA conference in Vicksburg […] Read more »
Katy Simpson Smith, Margaret McMullan Read at Millsaps Visiting Writers Series
Two writers with Mississippi ties — Katy Simpson Smith and Margaret McMullan — read from their current and recent work at Millsaps on November 15 in a program sponsored by the Millsaps English Department’s Visiting Writers Series and the Eudora Welty Foundation. Smith, center, and McMullan are seen here with Michael Pickard, assistant professor of […] Read more »