Lowry is visiting writer

Beverly Lowry

Beverly Lowry, the author of “Her Dream of Dreams: The Rise and Triumph of Madam C. J. Walker” and “Crossed Over,” a nonfiction memoir about the murder committed by Karla Faye Tucker in Texas, will serve as the distinguished visiting writer in the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program for the fall semester.

Lowry is the author of six novels and two books of nonfiction. She is the director of the program in creative nonfiction at George Mason University. 

Lowry's essays, profiles, and book reviews have been published in the New Yorker, New York Times, Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone, Granta and many other journals. Her short stories have appeared in the Boston Globe, Playgirl, the Mississippi Review, Redbook, Houston City Magazine and the Texas Humanist.

She has received awards from the National Endowment of the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Black Warrior Review, the Texas Institute of Letters, and the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters.

Lowry received her bachelor of arts from Memphis State University in 1960 and has taught at the University of Houston, the University of Montana, and the University of Alabama.

Previously she taught at Columbia University, Rice, Vassar, and the University of Montana.  A native of Mississippi, she presently lives in Washington, D.C.