Beth Ann Fennelly is an award-winning poet, author, and former Mississippi Poet Laureate whose work has earned grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Academy of American Poets, and a Fulbright Scholarship. She is the author of multiple acclaimed poetry collections, memoirs, and the bestselling novel The Tilted World, co-written with her husband, Tom Franklin. Fennelly teaches in the MFA Program at the University of Mississippi, where she has received four teaching awards and continues to inspire the next generation of writers.