27 Views of Wilmington: the Port City in Prose & Poetry

Jacket Description/Flap: 27 Views of Wilmington: The Port City in Prose & Poetry is the latest in Eno's popular series of local anthologies. The book showcases the literary life of one of North Carolina's most popular cities by featuring the works of more than two dozen hometown writers. The result is a mosaic of perspectives about life in the Port City in a variety of genres--journalism, history, fiction, poetry, and more. Contributors include Wiley Cash, Nan Graham, Jason Mott, Gwenyfar Rohror, Smith, Melanie Homer, Kevin Mauer, Virginia Holman, Dana Sachs, Rhonda Bellamy, Susan T. Block, Hannah Dela Cruz Abrams, Emily Smith, Nikki Leone, Bertha Boykin Todd, Philip Gerard, and more.

Contributor Bio:  Rivenbark, Celia Celia Rivenbark is the author of the award-winning bestsellers "Stop Dressing Your Six-Year-Old Like a Skank; Bless Your Heart, Tramp; Belle Weather"; and "You Can't Drink All Day If You Don't Start in the Morning. We're Just Like You, Only Prettier" won a Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance (SIBA) Book Award for nonfiction and was a finalist for the James Thurber Prize for American Humor. Born and raised in Duplin County, North Carolina, Rivenbark grew up in a small house "with a red barn out back that was populated by a couple of dozen lanky and unvaccinated cats." She started out writing for her hometown paper. She writes a weekly, nationally syndicated humor column for the "Myrtle Beach Sun News". She lives in Wilmington, North Carolina.