Sidney Burris

Sidney Burris was the long-time Director of the Fulbright College Honors Program at the University of Arkansas and currently codirects the Tibetan Cultural Institute of Arkansas, while also teaching in the Department of English. He oversees the TEXT Program (Tibetans in Exile Today), an oral-history project dedicated to preserving the stories of Tibetans currently living in exile in India.  He has published two volumes of verse, a book of literary criticism, and a number of personal essays.