Department of English

Carole Boston Weatherford
Professor

Office:  Butler Building 128
Phone:  (910) 672-2149
Email:   cweatherford@uncfsu.edu
Personal Homepage: http://www.caroleweatherford.com/ 

BIOGRAPHY

Carole Boston Weatherford is a Professor in the Department of English.  She holds an M.F.A. in creative writing from the University of North Carolina-Greensboro and an M.A. in publications design from the University of Baltimore. She has authored sixteen books of poetry, nonfiction and children’s literature and received a North Carolina Arts Council Fellowship, the North Carolina Juvenile Literature Award, an NAACP Image Award nomination, and the Carter G. Woodson Award from National Council for the Social Studies.  Her books have been short-listed by the National Council of Teachers of English, International Reading Association/Children’s Book Council, Voices of Youth Advocates and National Council for the Social Studies.

TEACHING COURSES

Creative Writing, Children's Literature, Adolescent Literature

Conjure: Online Journal of Literary Arts

RESEARCH

Her research interests include oral traditions, photography, folk art, and the Jim Crow era.

PUBLICATIONS

The Sound that Jazz Makes (Walker, 2000)
Illustrated by Eric Velasquez

Remember the Bridge: Poems of a People (Philomel, 2002)

Sidewalk Chalk: Poems of the City
Illustrated by Dimitrea Tokunbo

Sink or Swim: African-American Lifesavers of the Outer Banks (Coastal Carolina Press, 1999)

Jazz Baby (Lee & Low Books, 2002)
Illustrated by Laura Freeman

Princeville: The 500-Year Flood (Coastal Carolina Press, 2001)
Illustrated by Douglas Alvord

Juneteenth Jamboree (Lee & Low Books, 1995)

The African-American Struggle for Legal Equality (Enslow, 2000)

Great African-American Lawyers: Raising the Bar of Freedom (Enslow, 2003)

Mighty Menfolk, My Favorite Toy, Grandma and Me, Me and the Family Tree (Black Butterfly Books, 1997)
All illustrated by Michelle Mills