Lynn Veach Sadler

Mary Lynn Veach Sadler is an American poet, writer, and playwright.

Biography A native of North Carolina, she holds a doctorate and a master's degree from the University of Illinois and a bachelor's degree from Duke University. She formerly served as Vice president and Dean of Academic Affairs at Methodist College (now Methodist University) and as President of Johnson State College in Vermont. She is a member of the North Carolina Playwright’s Alliance. She currently works as a full-time writer, and her work has appeared in hundreds of print and electronic publications.

Awards Distinguished Woman of North Carolina, 1992 Panelist Choice Award, Albee Last Frontier Theatre Conference, 2000 Pittsburgh Quarterly Hay Prize, 2001 Sue Saniel Elkind Poetry Contest, First Place tie, 2002 Cape Fear Crime Festival Award, 2002 Cecil Hemley Memorial Award, Poetry Society of America, 2003 Lee Witte Poetry Contest, Mount Olive Review, 2003 Robert Olen Butler Prize (Del Sol Press), Top Ten Finalist, 2004 Charles Dickson Chapbook Prize, Georgia Poetry Society, 2005 Pinter Review Prize for Drama, Silver Medalist, 2005 Abroad Writer’s Contest/Fellowship (France) 2006 Bards and Sages Writing Competition, 2nd Place, 2006 Good Reads Fiction Book Competition, Honorable Mention, 2007 Beach Book Festival, Honorable Mention, 2008 Judith Seigel Pearson Award, Wayne State University, 2008 Gilbert-Chappell Distinguished Poet, North Carolina Poetry Society 2013

Books Margaret Drabble, Twayne Publishers (University of Michigan), 1986 Tonight I Lie with William Cullen Bryant, Publishers Circulation Corp, 1998 Poet Geography, Mount Olive College Press, 2003 The Men of Endor: Their Works and Times, 1861-1876 (with Robert Albert Wiesner), Railroad House Historical Association, 2006 Foot Ways, Bards and Sages Publishing, 2007 Not Dreamt of In Your Philosophy, Bards and Sages Publishing, 2008