Born: 1935, Enid, Oklahoma

Carol Hamilton,  Poet, Teacher, Children's Writer.  Carol Hamilton is a writer and storyteller born in Enid, Oklahoma and graduated from Midwest City High School. She has a BS degree from Phillips University and an MA in English from the University of Central Oklahoma. She lived in Connecticut, Scotland, New York, West Virginia, Ohio, and Indiana before returning to Oklahoma. She taught elementary school in North Haven, Connecticut, Indianapolis Indiana, and Tinker Elementary on Tinker AFB and helped develop and teach for the last 12 years of her public school career in the elementary gifted school for Mid-Del Schools, the Academic Center for Enrichment. She was Teacher of the Year for Mid-Del Schools in 1982.

She taught in the English Department of Rose State College for 10 years and 7 years on the graduate faculty of the Creative Studies Division of the English Department for the University of Central Oklahoma. She has also taught Spanish, astronomy, and creative writing in continuing education programs for Rose State College, Oasis, the Vo-Tech System, and other programs. She translates for an Oklahoma City health clinic for women and children and often goes as a translator for medical teams working in Third World countries. She received a Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of Central Oklahoma for 2007.

Some of her awards include:

Poet Laureate of the state of Oklahoma from 1995 to 1997.
She received a Southwest Book Award in 1988 for a children’s novel, The Dawn Seekers
Cherubim Award for another children’s novel, The Mystery of Black Mesa.
Won the Byline Literary Awards for both short story and poetry
Has been nominated three times for a Pushcart Prize.
Received the David Ray Poetry Award in 2000 and the 2002 Warren Keith Wright Prize for Poetry.

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