Lindell Kay

Lindell Kay holds a Master’s Degree in English with a concentration in Multicultural and Transnational Literatures from East Carolina University.

Kay is the 2026 recipient of the Naomi Dickens Shaw Award for teaching excellence. He teaches journalism, writing and research, world literature and communications at Louisburg College. He moderated a faculty panel at the 2026 Undergraduate American Arts Conference. Kay is the advisor of the student newsletter and LC Comic Book Club.

Before retiring from journalism, he covered Eastern North Carolina for newspapers from 2002 to 2022 as a reporter for The Daily News in Jacksonville, The Rocky Mount Telegram, The Wilson Times and half a dozen weeklies.

Kay won the O. Henry Award from the Associated Press for exceptional writing and earned two dozen awards from the N.C. Press Association for reporting on a wide range of stories from politics to unsolved crimes to police corruption. He’s been featured on Dateline and Investigation Discovery.

A Navy veteran with nearly three decades of experience in private security, his training includes body recovery with Naval Criminal Investigative Service, suspicious activity reporting with the Department of Homeland Security and recognizing sexual abuse with the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children. He co-founded Team Cold Case, which has helped law enforcement solve murders.

Kay lives in Louisburg, two blocks from campus, with his wife Michelle who works for the college as a library assistant. They have five adult children.

 

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