Margery Weber Bensey  (b. 1952)

Biography

Margery Weber Bensey was born on May 4, 1952. Bensey graduated from Oak Ridge High School in 1971, went on to undergraduate at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville where she received her B.A. in 1984, and continued at UTK to earn her Master's in Literature in 1989. She is a writer at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, where she was managing editor of two biweekly campus publications and teaches writing and word processing to university employees. Bensey was a writer, editor, researcher, and writing teacher for 25 years before retiring in 2007. She continues to write, writing for The Record among others, and she also serves as editor for the Blackberry Corner, The Inkwell, and The Parkridge Press. Her poem, "The Youth," was included in Breathing the Same Air: An East Tennessee Anthology. Bensey continues to make Knoxville her home and is actively involved with the Parkridge Community of Knoxville.

Bibliography

    Non-Fiction

• Writing Across the Curriculum at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (with James Rasnake and Robin Matlock, 1992)
• General Education at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville: Students' Self-Reports (with Susan E.W. Lankford, 1992)
• Active Learning: Increasing Student Involvement in the Learning Process (1992)

Sources and Links

• Phyllis Tickle and Alice Swanson, eds. Homeworks: A Book of Tennessee Writers. Knoxville: Tennessee Arts Commission and the University of Tennessee Press, 1996.
• Biographical Information (Have to Click on Meet Our Authors and Search for Margery Weber Bensey)
• Biography (Have to Scroll Down Through a Few Names to See Her)
• Writing Profile of Bensey
• Parkridge Community Organization
• Breathing the Same Air

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