Foot Ways

A native North Carolinian and formerly a college president in Vermont, Dr. Lynn Veach Sadler now works full time as a creative writer and an editor. Her academic publications include 5 books and 72 articles. She has edited 22 books/proceedings and 3 national journals and writes history columns for 2 newspapers. Her first nonfiction collection is in press. She was invited to be Visiting Scholar/Poet in Israel and judged the 2001 Voices Israel International Poetry Competition. She was published (2002) in Pudding House's (invitational) National Archiving Project, Poets' Greatest Hits; won The Pittsburgh Quarterly's 2001 Sara Henderson Hay Prize for Poetry; tied for first place in Kalliope's 2002 Sue S. Elkind Contest; was a runner-up for the 2002 Spoon River Poetry Review Editors' Prize Contest; and won the Poetry Society of America's 2003 Hemley Award and Asphodel's 2003 Poetry Contest. California's elizaPress named her its "2007 Writer of the Year." She won the 2009 overall award (poetry and fiction) of the San Diego City College National Writer's Contest and City Works Journal. As a Gilbert-Chappell Distinguished Poet 2013-2015, she mentored student and adult poets. Some 95% of her 1,300+ poems have been published. Lynn has had 125+ short stories published and has won the North Carolina Writers' Network, Talus and Scree, Cream City Review, Rambunctious Review, Cape Fear Crime Festival, and Scratch competitions, with a number of Glimmer Train finalists. One story appeared in Del Sol Press's Best of 2004: The Robert Olen Butler Prize Anthology. Another won the Abroad Writers 2006 Competition/Fellowship (France). She has published 1 novella, 2 short story collections (another in press), and 4 novels. At Bennett College, Dr. Sadler set up what is thought to be the first microcomputer laboratory in the country for teaching writing. She pioneered in Computer-Assisted Composition [CAC], coined the term, and published the first journal in the field (done with desktop publishing). From c. 1983, she consulted in and provided keynote addresses, talks, and workshops on academic computing at conferences (e.g., Association for Computers and Humanities, National Educational Computing Conference, World Conference on Computers in Education) on campuses across the U.S. and for organizations (e.g., AEtna, IBM Academic Computing Conference). She later pioneered in the adaptation of Deming and Total Quality to higher education. Lynn has received an Extraordinary Undergraduate Teaching Award; a civil rights award from Methodist University's Black Student Movement; the Distinguished Women of NC Award for education (1992); and the Paul Jehu Barringer, Jr. and Sr., Award for Exceptional Service to the History of the State from the NC Society of Historians (2004). She was the Sanford Rotary Club's 2013 "Rotarian of the Year." She was Visiting Distinguished Scholar in the "Educational Leadership for a Competitive America" seminar of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (1992), presented at the First International Milton Symposium (England), and directed an NEH Summer Seminar for College Teachers on "The Novel of Slave Unrest." A student from Bennett College was responsible for her 2010 selection for the National Women's Hall of Fame.