About
Britt lives in Burnsville, NC with her husband and three almost-grown children. She is increasingly more involved in the school system as a tutor (through GearUp) and substitute teacher, yet continues to do freelance graphic design. For years, she was a regular teaching artist with Penland School of Craft's Subs with Suitcases program.
Her poetry and prose have appeared in various publications: Kakalak Poetry Anthology (2007, 2008 & 2022), Main Street Rag, WNC Magazine, Now & Then, WNC Woman, The Mennonite and The Pedestal Magazine among others.
As founding planner, the Carolina Mountains Literary Festival is always a part of her yearly cycle and she remains involved peripherally. She also hosted Eve's Night Out, a monthly open-mic poetry reading in Burnsville for ten years pre-pandemic.
Her first full-length play, An Uncivil Union: The Battle of Burnsville (a romantic comedy set in the middle of actual events that occurred in Burnsville during the Civil War) was produced as a part of the Parkway Playhouse's 2011 season. Her second play Between the Tackles, written with Stephanie Stark-Poling premiered in September of 2012 on the same stage. She was awarded a 2012 Regional Artist's Project Grant to aid the completion and production of this play. Her chapbook of poems Belonging was published by Finishing Line Press.
w r i t i n g e x p e r i e n c e
Guest speaker at Appalachian State course in Appalachian Literature; Western Carolina University on playwriting for Pamela Duncan's creative writing class; Duke Universtiy on Mrs. Dalloway and The Hours for a film class on adaptations
2012 Artist in Residence with Toe River Arts Council -- week long in-school residencies teaching poetry
2012 recipient of the Regional Artists Project Grant from area Arts Councils for the completion of Betweeen the Tackles
2011 was interviewed by Jeff Davis for WordPlay Radio program
2011 read as a part of Asheville's poetry festival Wordfest!
Member of the steering committee of the Carolina Mountains Literary Festival
2006 - Publicity Chair & Web Designer
2007 - Author Recruitment, Publicity Overseer & Webmaster
2008 - Publicity Chair & Web Designer Carolina Mountains Literary Festival
wrote a commissioned poem for the festival and the Slow Book Salon
2009 - Publicity Chair & Web Designer (program committee)
2010 - Publicity Chair, Web Designer & Program Committee
2011 - Publicity Chair, Web Designer, Author Liaison & Program Committee (and presenting author)
2012 - Graphic Designer
2013 - Program Committee Chair & Graphic Designer
2014 - Graphic Designer
2015 -2016 Graphic Designer & on the Publicity Committee
2017 - 2019 Graphic Deisgner
Host of Eve's Night Out - a local poetry reading - 2005-2019
Co-founded the Lost County Writers critique group in 2005-2009
Formal Jobs:
Math tutor @ Mountain Heritage High School (2019-present)
Graphic Designer at Parkway Playhouse (2013-2019)
Sub with a Suitcase for Yancey & Mitchell County Schools - an innovative program created by
Penland School of Crafts and Mimi Hermon to train studio artists to be subs and bring more art
into the classrooms through already established channels. (2012-2018)
High School English Teacher
@ Eau Claire Public Schools - Seniors, Speech, Creative Writing, Psychology
@ Northwest High School, Indianapolis Public Schools -Freshmen, Senior AP, Etymology, SAT prep
@ John Adams High School, South Bend Community Schools - Freshmen Honors, Junior AP, Seniors
Participant in National Urban Alliance teacher training for two years. NUA
Volleyball Coach - 4 years of experience at the High School Level