Phyllis Gobbell

Since 2002 Phyllis Gobbell has served on the English faculty at Nashville State Community College, where she is now Associate Professor.  She teaches courses in composition and literature. She has taught creative writing and served as editor of the literary magazine, Tetrahedra, for eight years.

She earned her B.S. in Education at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and received her M.A. in English from Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, Tennessee, where the graduate program offered a creative thesis option.  Her thesis was a㻚-page collection of stories entitled Listen to Me. Most of the stories have been published in literary journals and have received awards.

Gobbells writing career spans three decades. Her history of publication includes both fiction and nonfiction. She has published two novels and more than thirty stories and articles in literary journals, anthologies, and magazines. One of her stories appeared in the anthology, HomeWorks, in 1996,  a collection of writings by Tennessee writers living at that time, including Alex Haley, Robert Penn Warren, and Peter Taylor.