Editors’ Bios

Amy Benson Brown

Program Director
abrow01@emory.edu
404-727-5796

Amy Benson Brown (Ph.D. Emory, 1995) began the Author Development Program after serving for several years as associate editor of the Academic Exchange, a journal for Emory faculty and teaching writing for many years. 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 volume of poetry in the voice of nineteenth-century abolitionist Sarah Grimke has been a finalist in several poetry competitions. Excerpts from that work have appeared in Poem, California Quarterly, Southern Poetry Review, and Diner. Currently, she’s working on a narrative history of northern women volunteers who participated in asocial experiment on the South Carolina Sea Islands during the Civil War.

Elizabeth Gallu

Associate Director of Programs
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, 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 was a finalist in the Glimmer Train short story competition and currently lives in the Atlanta area with her husband and their two sister cats Daisy and Piparella.

Author Development Board of Advisors

• Gregory Berns, Associate Professor of Psychiatry
• James Douglas Bremner, Associate Professor of Psychiatry
• Lucas Carpenter, Candler Professor of English
• Leslie Harris, Professor of History
• Pamela Hall, Associate Professor of Religion and Women’s Studies
• Laurie Patton, Professor of Religion and CFDE Director
• Sidney Perkowitz, Candler Professor of Physics
• Kathryn Yount, Assistant Professor, School of Public Health