Marjory Wentworth, Poet Laureate of South Carolina, has been nominated for The Pushcart Prize for poetry five times. Her books of poetry include Noticing Eden, Despite Gravity, and The Endless Repetition of an Ordinary Miracle.
She is the co-writer with Juan Mendez of Taking a Stand, The Evolution of Human Rights, the book was nominated for 2013 WOLA (Washington Office on Latin America)/Duke Human Rights Book Award, and the 2011 SIBA (Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance) award (category-nonfiction). She is the co-editor with Kwame Dawes of Seeking, Poetry and Prose inspired by the Art of Jonathan Green, and the author of the prizewinning children’s story Shackles. Shackles, was also nominated for 2010 SIBA (Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance) Award for Best Book (category-children’s and young adult). Shackles, is the winner of Silver Medal in the 2009 Moonbeam Children’s Book awards for multi-cultural children’s books. Her latest book, New and Selected Poems, was published by the University of South Carolina Press in March, 2014. Marjory teaches poetry in the Engaging Creative Minds program of the Charleston County school system and she is on the faculty of the Art Institute of Charleston, SC. She is the co-founder and President of the Lowcountry Initiative for the Literary Arts, and she serves on the board of directors of The Poetry Society of South Carolina. She has collaborated extensively with visual artists and composers. Her poems have been displayed at The National Science Foundation, Duke University Museum of Art, and The Gibbes Museum. Her work is included in the South Carolina Poetry Archives at Furman University.