Serenity Gerbman

Serenity Gerbman has served as Director of Literature and Language Programs at Humanities Tennessee since 2001. In that capacity, she is director of the Southern Festival of Books, founding publisher of Chapter16.org, founding director of the Tennessee Book Awards, and engaged with other literary programs statewide. She has served on review panels for the NEA Big Reads program the SouthARTS Literary Arts grants, and the Southern Word spoken word statewide awards. She is an occasional hiker, failed knitter, and firm believer that all reading is good reading. She lives near Nashville.