Editors' Bios
Amy Benson Brown
Program Director
abrow01@emory.edu
404.727.5796
Amy Benson Brown (Ph.D. Emory, 1995) began the Provost's Program for Manuscript Development after serving for several years as associate editor of the Academic Exchange, a journal for Emory faculty. Her books include Rewriting the Word: American Women Writers and the Bible and two edited collections, The Reality of Breastfeeding: Reflections by Contemporary American Women and Roads to Reconciliation: Approaches to Conflict in the Twenty-First Century. Her latest project is a book of poems about the abolitionist Sarah Grimke, and excerpts from that work have appeared in Poem, California Quarterly, Diner, and the Southern Poetry Review. Click on the following links for her online essays on writing.
"On Writing Habits and Habitats"
http://www.emory.edu/EMORY_REPORT/erarchive/2007/April/April%209/firstperson.htm
"Encouraging Words: Some Advice for Academic Writers"
http://www.emory.edu/ACAD_EXCHANGE/2006/sept/brown.html
Elizabeth Gallu
Sr. Editor
egallu@emory.edu
404.727.6692
Elizabeth Gallu graduated from Smith College and received her M.T.S. from Harvard Divinity School. She is the recipient of a J. William Fulbright award for research in the Transylvania region of Romania where she lived for three years. She is also the recipient of a Macdowell Colony residency fellowship, a Vermont Council on the Arts literary fellowship, and a residency fellowship to the Virginia Center for the Arts. Her works of fiction and creative non-fiction have appeared in publications such as Glimmer Train, North American Review, Passages North, TROIKA, Familia (a Romanian literary journal), Beloit Fiction Journal, and Westview. Her essay on Buddhist ethics, “Sunyata and Interconnectedness,” is included in the anthology The Religious Philosophy of Keiji Nishitani published by Asian Humanities Press. Elizabeth is currently working in the Atlanta area with her husband and their two sister cats, Daisy and Piparella.
Manuscript Development Board of Advisors
Gregory Berns, Associate Professor of Psychiatry
James Douglas Bremner, Associate Professor of Psychiatry
Lucas Carpenter, Candler Professor of English
Frans de Waal, Candler Professor of Primate Behavior
Pamela Hall, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Women’s Studies
Leslie Harris, Associate Professor, History
Michael Leo Owens, Assistant Professor, Political Science
Sidney Perkowitz, Candler Professor of Physics
Claire Sterk, Senior Vice Provost for Faculty Development and Academic Planning
Kathryn Yount, Assistant Professor, School of Publich Health
