George Edward Buggs received his B.S. degree in History from Hampton Institute (Virginia) and his M.A. in English (Creative Writing) from Brown University. While enrolled at Brown University he taught creative writing to undergraduates and he participated in the Rhode Island Council on the Arts' "Art's in the Libraries" program as a Creative Writing Specialist for the Roger Williams College's University Without Walls program at the Rhode Island Correctional Facility.
He is a photographer and poet. His poems have appeared in many periodicals and small magazines including The Woodstock Seasoner, Iowa Review, Black Scholar, American Poetry, Evergreen Review, Black Lines, Black Creation, Pendulum, W.I.P., Obsidian, Saracen, The Providence Review, Pegasus, Ishmael, Kumanitu, Big Moon, B.O.P. (Blacks on Paper), and Image and Issues and Roxbury Literary Annual (Vol.1 and 2). He has published work in Broadside Press' Broadside Series (#51) and has had a volume of poems, Music from the Middle Passage, published by Cornerstone Press (St. Louis). In 1969 he received the Reader's Digest-United Negro College Fund's Creative Writer's Award for Poetry. In 1972 and 1973 he was a Bread Loaf Writer's Conference Scholarship recipient. He has given readings of his poems at several colleges and universities including Sarah Lawrence College, Hampton Institute, Oswego University and Brown University.
His photography credits include the New England Black Weekly newspaper, Blackfolk, the Cambridge River Festival, and Channel 7/WNAC TV's Weekday program. He has exhibited his photographs at the Cambridge Public Library and Northeastern University. His play writing activity includes the completion of FIVE- GRAND SURPRISE, a one-act play and DEAR FRISHA, a full-length three-act play. These plays were completed while the writer was participating in ACT Roxbury's playwriting workshop, "Five Fridays and A Sunny Afternoon", conducted by playwright Ed Bullins in 2001 and 2002 in Boston, Massachusetts.
He currently resides in Aiken, South Carolina and is engaged in creative photography. His primary subjects are the equine activities for which Aiken is known. He has exhibited his photographic art in a number of local venues. They include The Aiken Center for the Arts, The McCormick Arts Center at the Keturah, (McCormick, S.C.), Equine Divine Art Gallery (Aiken), the South Side Gallery (Aiken), Aiken Office Supply, and The Aiken Spring Classic Horse Show (2007). His photos have appeared in the Aiken Standard, The Aiken Training Track brochure and web site, The Aiken Horse, The Thoroughbred Times and The Steeplechase Times. He has photographs published in A Pictorial History Of African Americans in Aiken County. He has also recently provided several images to the Aiken Downtown Development Association for a limited-edition postcard fundraiser project.
