Steven Lynn Editor & Author

Aïda Rogers is a writer for the University of South Carolina Honors College and editor of State of the Heart: South Carolina Writers on the Places They Love, volumes 1 and 2, also published by the University of South Carolina Press.|Steven Lynn is the dean of the University of South Carolina Honors College and Louise Fry Scudder Professor of English.|Marjory Wentworth is South Carolina’s poet laureate and the competition’s co-judge (with Pat Conroy).