Sharon Swanson
Project director Sharon Swanson has written extensively on the life and work of Elizabeth Spencer. She is a native Southerner whose work has been published in Raleigh’s Metro Magazine, Chapel Hill Magazine, and Raleigh’s News & Observer. Her interview with the family of Collin Finnerty, one of the three accused Duke University lacrosse defendants, was nominated for a Silver Gavel Award and her essay, “Saving Sarah,” was selected as a finalist in a 2008 international competition sponsored by the literary journal New Letters. Swanson received a graduate degree in nonfiction writing from the Writing Seminars at Bennington College and a master of public administration from East Carolina University. Her latest project is Elizabeth Spencer: Landscapes of the Heart, a detailed look in high definition video—through interviews, archival photos and film clips—at an extraordinary woman’s life and work, viewed through the prism of the Southern upbringing that defined her.
