E. Jean Lanyon

e. jean lanyon is a native Delawarean and both a poet and a fine artist. She studied at Chouinard Art Institute, Los Angeles, CA. She received her BA from Goddard College, VT, and pursued graduate studies at MICA, MD, and Vermont College, VT. She received a DDA Professional Artist Fellowship in 1997; Individual Governor’s Awards in Poetry and Art in 2000; and a Biggs Museum of American Art, Dover, DE exhibition, “As the Poet Paints,” in 2012. She has been published in tabloids, magazines, anthologies and chapbooks. e. jean served as Poet Laureate for the State of Delaware from 1979–2001.  She has taught many courses and workshops on poetry, and chairs the First State Writers group.