South Carolina's sixth state Poet Laureate, she served from 2003 to 2020. In 2021, she received the South Carolina Governor's Award for the Arts.
Marjory Wentworth's compilation of work with subject matter spanning from war, to grief and loss, to politics, and more. Wentworth made national headlines when former SC Governor Nikki Haley removed her poem, "One River, One Boat" from her inauguration program schedule in 2015.
