Sellers, Bettie M.

"Bettie Sellers lives and writes poetry in Young Harris, a small college town in the mountains of north Georgia. She is best known for her poems about life in southern Appalachia. Although Sellers was reared in the Piedmont region, near Griffin, her grandmother grew up in north Georgia's Nacoochee Valley. This heritage stimulated Sellers's interest in Appalachia. After earning a B.A. from LaGrange College in 1958 and an M.A. from the University of Georgia in 1966, she accepted a position as professor of English at Young Harris College. After thirty-two years of service to the college, Sellers retired in 1997." -- "Bettie Sellers (b. 1926)." New Georgia Encyclopedia. http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-475 (Retrieved November 20, 2009)