Sybil P. Estess

Sybil Pittman Estess was born in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, and has degrees from Baylor University, the University of Kentucky, and Syracuse University. She is the author of four books of poetry: Maneuvers, Labyrinth, Seeing the Desert Green, and Blue, Candled in January Sun. She has also written a collection of criticism on Elizabeth Bishop, Elizabeth Bishop and Her Art, and has co-written a multigenre creative writing textbook, In a Field of Words. She has published in well over 100 literary critical essays, reviews, and editorials in journals, magazines, and newspapers including Paris Review, The Texas Review, descant, Concho River Review, Louisiana Literature, Shenandoah, Borderlands, Southern Poetry Review, The Southern Review, Manhattan Review, The Mississippi Review, The Jewish Herald Voice, and The Houston Chronicle. Estess has lived in Houston with her spouse, Dr. Ted L. Estess, for thirty-seven years. She is the mother of one son, Benjamin Barrett, and the grandmother of two granddaughters, Himma Lynn Estess and Zollie Be Estess, both of whose mother is Briana Jane Bassler.