A Kind of Peace-New and Selected Poems

About the Book

These selected poems cover a lifetime search which comes to fruition after ninety years of writing and study.

About the Author

Sallie Nixon is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of he University of Nebraska, where she received the 1970 American Academy of Poets Award and the 1971 Vreeland Award for Creative Writing.

Active as a teacher and poet in North Carolina, she has taught Poetry in the Schools Program in Mecklenburg and Lincoln counties and St. Andrews Presbyterian College.

Among numbrous poetry awards are the 1971 "John Mansfield" and the 1973 "Gustav Davidson" from the Poetry Society of America.  Her work has been published in literary journals, including Prairie Schooner, Carolina Quarterly, St. Andrews Review, Pembroke Magazine, and aspen leaves.  She has three collecions of poetry:  Surely--Goodness and Mercy, Second Grace, and Spiraling.  Her work is also included in several anthologies and textbooks.  

In September, 1973, Sallie completed studies in American Art and American Poetry under Dr. Marvin Mitchell at Marshall University, Huntington, West Virginia.

Sallie has served as President of the North Carolina Poetry Society, President of the North Carolina Writers Conference, Chairman of the Lincoln County Library Board of Trustees, and two-term appointee of Governor James B. Hunt to the board of trhe North Carolina Arts Council.  She is at present a trustee of the Lincoln Arts Council.      

In 1982 Sallie was honored by the North Carolina Poetry Society as a Life Member.  In 1986 she received the Samuel Talmadge Ragan award at St. Andrews Presbyterian College for Extraordinary Contributions to the Fine Arts in North Carolina.

A native of Henderson, North Carolina, Sallie now lives at Covenant Village, 1351 Robinwood Road, Apt A-8, Gastonia, North Carolina 28054.