FestivALL – Three Things

Three Things: My First, My Favorite, My Future is a live monthly speaker series showcasing three West Virginians who share personal stories about where they started, what they love, and how they envision their futures. The show is produced and hosted by Mountain Stage’s Jeff Shirley. Season 6, Episode 8 also features the CEO of WV Health Right, Dr. Angie Settle, and filmmaker John Nakashima. Presented by FestiVALL, Three Things is sponsored by West Virginia Public Broadcasting, the University of Charleston, Taylor Books, the Charleston Convention & Visitors Bureau, United Bank, and the Glotfelty Foundation.
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Chosen to Present at the Mildred
Haun Conference (2024)

Guest Judge for the West Virginia
Poetry Out Loud State Finals (2023)

Translation Work Featured in
Scandinavian Review (2023)

Awarded Two Translation Grants
from FARLIT (2023)

Guest Judge for the West Virginia
Poetry Out Loud State Finals (2022)

Anthology of Appalachian Writers XIV
Photography Award (2022)

Winner of the American-Scandinavian
Foundation’s Nadia Christensen Prize (2021)

Invited to be a Guest on
Season 6, Episode 8 of Three Things (2021)

Invited to Participate on
The Authors’ Roundtable at FestivALL (2021)

Selected as a Guest Editor
for Norsk Forfatternes Klimaaksjon (2021)

Translation Grant from
Mentanargrunnur Landsins (2020)

Anthology of Appalachian Writers XI
Photography Award (2019)

Spoken Word Juror for the Women of
Appalachia Project (2019)

Fine Art Juror for the Women of
Appalachia Project (2018)

Guest Speaker for the West Virginia
Poetry Out Loud State Finals (2018)

Guest Judge for the West Virginia
Poetry Out Loud State Finals (2017)

Featured Artist in Fluent Magazine
(Winter 2016)

Randi Ward Collection established
At Cornell University Library (2015)

Featured Artist in R.KV.R.Y Quarterly
(Vol. 21.1, 2015)

Featured Artist in Quail Bell Magazine
(August 2015)

Featured Artist in Of/With
(Issue 2, 2015)

Poet Of The Week
Poetry Super Highway (2015)

Guest Judge for the West Virginia
Poetry Out Loud State Finals (2015)

Featured Photographer in The Zorn Section
of The Stockholm Review (2014)

Translation Grant from
Mentanargrunnur Landsins (2014)

Nominated for Best of the Net by
Thrush Poetry Journal (2014)

Winner of the American-Scandinavian
Foundation’s Nadia Christensen Prize (2013)

Nominated for a Pushcart Prize by the
Anthology of Appalachian Writers (2013)

Photographs selected for display at the
National Art Gallery of the Faroe Islands (2009)

US National Fulbright Finalist (2004)

Phi Beta Kappa (2004)