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Peter Huggins
Peter Huggins received his MFA from the University of Alabama. A poet and writer of fiction for children, he has published three books of poems, Necessary Acts (2004), Blue Angels (2001), and Hard Facts (1998), a picture book, Trosclair and the Alligator (2006), and a novel for younger readers, ages 9-13, In the Company of Owls (2008). South, a new volume of poems, is forthcoming from Louisiana Literature Press in 2009.
For 2006 he was awarded a literature fellowship in poetry from the Alabama State Council on the Arts.
A former President of the Board of the Alabama Writers' Forum, he is a full member of the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators.
He has won an Instructor Teaching Award and was named an Outstanding Professor, Auburn University Panhellenic Council.
Trosclair and the Alligator was selected by the Bank Street College of Education for its Best Children's Books, 2007 and by the Cooperative Children's Book Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison for its Choices, 2007.
Representative Publications
- In the Company of Owls. Montgomery and Louisville: NewSouth/Junebug Books, 2008.
- Trosclair and the Alligator. New York: Star Bright Books, 2006.
- Necessary Acts. Montgomery, AL: River City Publishing, 2004.
- Blue Angels. River City Publishing, 2001.
- Hard Facts. Livingston Press, 1998.