Dr. Lynn Veach Sadler is an American poet, writer, and playwright. A native of North Carolina, she holds a doctorate and a master's degree from the University of Illinois and a bachelor's degree from Duke University1. She formerly served as Vice president and Dean of Academic Affairs at Methodist College (now Methodist University) and as President of Johnson State College in Vermont.2 She is a member of the North Carolina Playwright’s Alliance. She current works as a full-time writer, and her work has appeared in hundreds of print and electronic publications.
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Distinguished Woman of North Carolina, 1992 3
Panelist Choice Award, Albee Last Frontier Theatre Conference, 2000
Pittsburgh Quarterly Hay Prize, 2001
Sue Saniel Elkind Poetry Contest, First Place tie, 2002
Cape Fear Crime Festival Award, 2002 4
Cecil Hemley Memorial Award, Poetry Society of America, 2003
Lee Witte Poetry Contest, Mount Olive Review, 2003
Robert Olen Butler Prize (Del Sol Press), Top Ten Finalist, 2004
Charles Dickson Chapbook Prize, Georgia Poetry Society, 2005
Pinter Review Prize for Drama, Silver Medalist, 2005
Abroad Writer’s Contest/Fellowship (France) 2006
Bards and Sages Writing Competition, 2nd Place, 2006
Good Reads Fiction Book Competition, Honorable Mention, 2007
Beach Book Festival, Honorable Mention, 2008
Judith Seigel Pearson Award, Wayne State University, 2008
Margaret Drabble, Twayne Publishers (University of Michigan), 1986
Tonight I Lie with William Cullen Bryant, Publishers Circulation Corp, 1998
Poet Geography, Mount Olive College Press, 2003
The Men of Endor: Their Works and Times, 1861-1876 (with Robert Albert Wiesner), Railroad House Historical Association, 2006
Foot Ways, Bards and Sages Publishing, 2007
Not Dreamt of In Your Philosophy, Bards and Sages Publishing, 2008
1. Boston Globe, People in Education, May 20, 1990
2. Fayetteville Observer, The (NC), December 14, 1989
3. The Virginian-Pilot, April 3, 1992
4. Fayetteville Observer, The (NC), October 20, 2002