Hensley, Marcia Meredith
1942-
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Sweetwater County
Biographical and Professional Information
A graduate of the University of Tulsa, Hensley taught English at Western Wyoming Community College where she directed the Western American Studies program in addition to teaching composition and Western Literature. Since retiring she has concentrated on writing and historical research.
In 2004, she won the Wyoming Arts Council’s Neltje Blanchan Memorial Award for writing inspired by nature. She has served on the Wyoming Council for the Humanities Speaker’s Bureau.
Along with a group of community volunteers, she is compiling an anthology of stories about Eden Valley, Wyoming, to commemorate the valley’s centennial. Her work has been published in two anthologies of western writing as well as the syndicated newspaper column Writers on the Range.
http://wyomingarts.blogspot.com/
May 13, 2009
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History
Wyoming Subjects
Titles
- Staking Her Claim: Women Homesteading the West (2007). Glendo, WY : High Plains Press. ISBN: 9780931271892.
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