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Biography of Tamara Baxter
Tamara Baxter's collection of fiction, "Rock Big and Sing Loud" won the Morehead State and Jesse Stuart Foundation's First Author's Award for Fiction, and was published by the Jesse Stuart Foundation Press. Her short fiction, poetry, and essays have been widely published in journals such as "Artemis," "Appalachian Heritage," "Wellspring," and in anthologies such as the 2000 "O. Henry Awards Anthology," and "The Night Shade Nightstand Reader," edited by Fred Chappell. Baxter has received more than a dozen awards for her writing, including the Harriette Arnow Award, the Sherwood Anderson Award, the Leslie Garrett Award in fiction, and the National Rose Post Award for creative non-fiction. She is a regular contributor to "Now & Then" and other regional magazines. Baxter leads fiction writing workshops throughout the region. She is an Associate Professor of English at Northeast State Community College where she teaches literature and creative writing, and is an editor for the literary magazine, "Echoes & Images."
