12 Notable alumni of
Hollins University
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Hollins University is 2065th in the world, 719th in North America, and 678th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 12 notable alumni from Hollins University sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Annie Dillard
- Enrolled in Hollins University
- In 1968 graduated with Master of Arts in English literature
- Occupations
- writernovelistuniversity teacheressayistpoet
- Biography
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Annie Dillard is an American author, best known for her narrative prose in both fiction and non-fiction. She has published works of poetry, essays, prose, and literary criticism, as well as two novels and one memoir. Her 1974 novel Pilgrim at Tinker Creek won the 1975 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. From 1980, Dillard taught for 21 years in the English department of Wesleyan University, in Middletown, Connecticut.
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Natasha Trethewey
- Enrolled in Hollins University
- In 1991 graduated with Master of Arts in English studies and creative writing
- Occupations
- writerpoet
- Biography
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Natasha Trethewey is an American poet who served as United States Poet Laureate from 2012 to 2014. She won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for her 2006 collection Native Guard, and is a former Poet Laureate of Mississippi.
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Lottie Moon
- Occupations
- missionary
- Biography
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Charlotte Digges "Lottie" Moon was an American Southern Baptist missionary to China with the Foreign Mission Board who spent nearly 40 years (1873–1912) living and working in China. As a teacher and evangelist she laid a foundation for traditionally solid support for missions among Southern Baptists, especially through its Woman's Missionary Union.
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Donna Richardson
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Donna Richardson Joyner is an American fitness and aerobics instructor, author and ESPN television sports commentator. Widely known for her series of fitness videos, she was appointed in 2006 by President George W. Bush to serve on the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports. She also produces and hosts Donna Richardson: Mind, Body, & Spirit, which airs on TV One, and Sweating In The Spirit, which airs on The Word Network.
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Dorothy Dix
- Years
- 1861-1951 (aged 90)
- Occupations
- writerjournalist
- Biography
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Elizabeth Meriwether Gilmer, widely known by the pen name Dorothy Dix, was an American journalist and columnist. As the forerunner of today's popular advice columnists, Dix was America's highest paid and most widely read female journalist at the time of her death. Her advice on marriage was syndicated in newspapers around the world. With an estimated audience of 60 million readers, she became a popular and recognized figure on her travels abroad. In addition to her journalistic work, she joined in the campaign for woman suffrage and the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
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Ann Compton
- Occupations
- reporterjournalist
- Biography
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Ann Compton is an American former news reporter and White House correspondent for ABC News Radio.
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Richard McCann
- Years
- 1949-2021 (aged 72)
- Occupations
- university teacherwriterpoet
- Biography
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Richard John McCann was an American writer of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. He lived in Washington, D.C., where he was a longtime professor in the MFA Program in Creative Writing at American University.
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Mary K. Gaillard
- Occupations
- physicist
- Biography
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Mary Katharine Gaillard is an American theoretical physicist. Her focus is on particle physics. She is a professor of the graduate school at the University of California, Berkeley, a member of the Berkeley Center for Theoretical Physics, and visiting scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. She was Berkeley's first tenured female physicist.
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Heather Fitzenhagen
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Heather Dawes Fitzenhagen is a Republican politician from Florida. She represented the 78th District, encompassing Fort Myers, in the Florida House of Representatives from 2012 to 2020.
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Pamela J. H. Slutz
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- 1949-.. (age 75)
- Occupations
- diplomat
- Biography
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Pamela Jo Howell Slutz was a career member of the United States Foreign Service who served as U.S. Ambassador to Burundi, and as U.S. Ambassador to Mongolia. Over the course of her career, she has also served in various diplomatic posts in Kenya, Taiwan, Indonesia, and China. She was the recipient of two U.S. Department of State Superior Honor Awards and the Presidential Rank Award of Meritorious Executive. After retiring in 2012, Slutz continued to work part-time for the Office of the Inspector General, U.S. Department of State. Since 2019, she has served as president of The Mongolia Society.
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Cathryn Hankla
- Years
- 1958-.. (age 66)
- Occupations
- novelistwriterpoet
- Biography
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Cathryn Hankla (born March 20, 1958) is an American poet, novelist, essayist and author of short stories. She is professor emerita of English and Creative Writing at Hollins University in Hollins, Virginia, and served as inaugural director of Hollins' Jackson Center for Creative Writing from 2008 to 2012.
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Helen Pickett
- Enrolled in Hollins University
- In 2011 graduated with Master of Fine Arts in dance
- Occupations
- dancerchoreographer
- Biography
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Helen Pickett is an American choreographer for stage and film, and has been described as “one of the few prominent women in ballet today”.
