Donald Morrill, associate dean of graduate and continuing studies and Dana professor of English, received Carolina Wren Press’ 2017 Lee Smith Novel Prize for his novel, Beaut.

The Lee Smith Novel Prize recognizes authors living in, writing about or originally from the U.S. South.

Volume 50, Issue 3 Donald Morrill is the author of two volumes of poetry, At the Bottom of the Sky and With Your Back to Half the Day, as well as four books of nonfiction: The Untouched Minutes (winner of the ...

Morrill examines the condition of wakefulness, beginning with coming out of a dream. “I wake up and try to write down my dream,” he writes. “I do this to re-enter my life…” He connects shared habits of the mind, the ...