Biography

Georgann Eubanks has published short stories, poems, reviews, and profiles in many magazines and journals including The Washington Monthly, Oxford American, Bellingham Review, Southern Review, Duke Magazine, Boston Globe Sunday Magazine, Appalachian Heritage, and North American Review. She is a North Carolina Arts Council Literary Fellowship winner (1985), recipient of a regional Emmy for songwriting (2001), and has been Director of the Duke University Writers' Workshop since 1989. Eubanks' current writing project is the creation of a series of literary guidebooks commissioned by the NC Arts Council and published by UNC Press that will extend public recognition of the significant role of North Carolina writers as the documenters and interpreters of our families, communities, history, culture, and dreams.

Georgann is also a communications consultant with more than 25 years of progressive experience in the nonprofit sector, particularly in higher education and the arts. She has been involved in market assessment, strategic planning, writing, and communications planning for dozens of organizations around the country as a consulting associate with Art & Science Group, Inc. since its founding in 1994. She also has presented seminars across the country on effective writing, print marketing, and nonprofit leadership,

Eubanks is a part-time faculty member in both the nonprofit management and documentary studies certificate programs at Duke University and served as assistant director of Duke Continuing Studies from 1995 until 2000. Since 1999, she has been engaged by the Wildacres Leadership Initiative to provide a curriculum in storytelling and to serve as writing coach to the William C. Friday Fellows.

In addition to her teaching and consulting, Eubanks is a principal, with Donna Campbell, in Minnow Media, LLC, a full-service multimedia production company primarily involved in the creation of independent, public affairs documentaries for public television. Campbell also served as photographer for Literary Trails of the North Carolina Mountains.

Georgann Eubanks on Blue Ridge Pinnacle, same view as old postcard above

Georgann Eubanks and Donna Campbell, photographer and video producer.