The AJC reports that Decatur native and poet A.E. Stallings is one of 22 recipients of the 2011 MacArthur Genius Award.  The AJC’s Howard Pousner caught up with Stallings via email from her home in Athens, Greece and did a little Q&A.  When asked about what she missed about Atlanta, Stallings replied…

I miss our friends (from high school and college era), and the exuberant greenery and the food (BBQ, Tex-Mex, Little Szechuan, Don Taco, even the Waffle House!). We used to live in an apartment in a marvellous old house in Clarkston, which is immortalized in my poem, “Lovejoy Street.”