Sarah Gordon
Sarah Gordon, longtime editor of
The Flannery O'Connor Bulletin and Founding Editor of the
Flannery O'Connor Review, chaired five O'Connor symposia at O'Connor's alma mater, Georgia College in Milledgeville, and is the editor of
Flannery O'Connor: In Celebration of Genius (Hill Street, U South Carolina Press) and the author of
Flannery O'Connor: The Obedient Imagination (UGA Press 2000) and
A Literary Guide to Flannery O'Connor's Georgia (UGA Press 2008). For over thirty years, Gordon taught at Georgia College & State University and was named Distinguished Professor. She is also the recipient of a Governor's Humanities Award from the state of Georgia and serves on the Flannery O'Connor-Andalusia Board of Directors. A much sought-after speaker, Gordon most recently was a featured lecturer at the Georgia College NEH Institute on Flannery O'Connor and the Southern Women Writers Conference at Berry College; she will deliver a public lecture on O'Connor at Washington and Lee University in the fall of 2010 to celebrate the special Flannery O'Connor 60th Anniversary issue of
Shenandoah. Sarah Gordon is also a widely published poet, with work appearing over the years in
Southern Exposure, Florida Review, Georgia Review, Confrontation, Shenandoah, Apalachee Quarterly, and elsewhere. Her collection,
Distances, appeared in 1999. She lives in Athens, Georgia.
