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Carolyn
CARROLL
JONES |
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B.A., University of Alabama
M.A Northern Arizona University |
ENGLISH/MASS COMMUNICATIONS
READING/CREATIVE WRITING
Classroom:
English Building, Room 111
Yearbook Lab: English Building,
Room 110
Office:
English Building, Room 108
Office Phone: (256)
638-4418, ext. 252
Yearbook Office: ext. 397
E-mail:
carrollc@nacc.edu
Address:
P.O. Box 159, Rainsville, AL
35986
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"I love working with
NACC students, because so many are so friendly, so
humble, so intelligent, so creative, so hopeful, so
courageous,
and so eager to learn."
Carolyn grew up in Atlanta, Georgia, and decided to
pursue a degree in journalism at the University of Alabama
after visiting the campus and falling in love with its
beauty and vitality. While at UA, she quickly became
involved in its renowned student-publications program and,
after two years of working the beats, was appointed
editor-in-chief of the university's daily student newspaper.
While working on her bachelor's degree, she also interned
with The Tuscaloosa News as well as The Commercial Appeal,
in Memphis, TN; wrote press releases for the university's
public-relations department; and founded the undergraduate
literary/art magazine, Marr's Field Journal, which still
thrives today.
After graduation, Carolyn boarded a train to New York City,
where she deboarded at Penn Station with only two suitcases
to her name. She lived and worked on her own in Manhattan
until, ever restless, she moved to Chapel Hill, North
Carolina, and then to Flagstaff, Arizona, to write her way
toward a master's degree, teaching composition to
undergraduates and waiting tables at the Downtown Diner to
pay her way.
Since graduate school, Carolyn has lived in several more
U.S. cities and worked as a labor-union representative, a
book editor, a newspaper reporter, a high-school teacher,
and a mom. She can't explain exactly how it is that
she ended up on Sand Mountain, in rural Alabama, but
she will say her work here at the college is the most
gratifying of all her many endeavors.
She continues to write creatively and is concentrating these
days (in
her copious spare time) on completing a young-adult novel. |
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