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Valerie Boyd was the Charlayne Hunter-Gault Distinguished Writer in Residence, director of the MFA in Narrative Nonfiction program and director of the Giving Voice to the Voiceless grant program.

 Photo credit: Jason Thrasher/UGA News Service

ATHENS — Valerie Boyd, writer, teacher, motivator and encourager, died Feb. 12, 2022, leaving many former students, colleagues and friends grieving, but grateful for the time they shared.

“Valerie Boyd’s towering prose, gentle spirit and moral compass will be greatly missed by all of us,” said Charles N. Davis, dean of Grady College. “She possessed a rare combination of gift and grit, a colleague who, once she set to a task, never let go. Her work with our MFA program set the course for what has become a family of writers – a family that grieves today, but also celebrates what she helped to build.

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