Mary Norton Kratt

Mary Kratt’s books of poetry include THE ONLY THING I FEAR IS A COW AND A DRUNKEN MAN (Carolina Wren Press); SPIRIT GOING BAREFOOT (Briarpatch Press); ON THE STEEP SIDE (Briarpatch Press); SMALL POTATOES (St. Andrews College Press); and VALLEY, (Sow’s Ear Press). Her poems have appeared in SHENANDOAH, TAR RIVER POETRY, STONE COUNTRY, NEW MEXICO HUMANITIES REVIEW, GREENSBORO REVIEW, NIMROD, YANKEE and others. Mary Kratt was a 1996 North Carolina Arts Council fellow at the MacDowell Colony in Peterborough, New Hampshire. Twice winner of the Blumenthal Writers and Readers Series sponsored by the N.C. Writers Network, she won the Fortner Writer- in-Community Award from St. Andrews College in 1994. In 2000, her book, Small Potatoes, won the Brockman/Campbell Book Award for poetry and Spirit Going Barefoot won the Oscar Arnold Young Award in 1982. She has seventeen published books of poetry, history, and biography, and served on the Speakers Bureau of the North Carolina Humanities Council. She wrote two published walking tours of uptown Charlotte and led history tours for teachers and residents for the Museum of the New South. She lives in Charlotte, North Carolina and taught part-time at UNC-Charlotte 1992-7. Her books about Charlotte include Charlotte, North Carolina: A Brief History (The History Press, Charleston, S.C. 2009), New South Women: Twentieth Century Women of Charlotte, North Carolina (Public Library of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County, 2001), Remembering Charlotte: Postcards from a New South City, 1905-1950 (UNC Press, 2000); Charlotte: Spirit of the New South (John F. Blair Publisher, 1406 Plaza Drive Winston-Salem, N.C. 27104, 1993); Legacy: The Myers Park Story (Myers Park Foundation, 1986, 2010); A Little Charlotte Scrapbook (Briarpatch Press, 1990) and about the South, Southern Is… (Peachtree Publishers Ltd., 1985). She earned degrees from Agnes Scott College (B.A.) and the University of North Carolina at Charlotte (M.A.).