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Kelly Cherry I write novels, stories, poems, autobiography, memoir, criticism, reviews.

About Me

Kelly Cherry
Kelly Cherry
Member since: Feb, 2009
Last login: 10/24/2009
Last update : 12/03/2009
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NationalityUnited States

About Me

  • I've published seven full-length books of fiction, seven of poetry, three of nonfiction, eight chapbooks, and translations of two classical plays.  Forthcoming in 2009 are GIRL IN A LIBRARY: ON WOMEN WRITERS AND THE WRITING LIFE (BkMk Press) and THE RETREATS OF THOUGHT: POEMS (LSU Press). My husband and I live on a small farm in Virginia with two canine comedians.

Relationship Status

  • Burke Davis III

Interests & Hobbies


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WORK

  • Seventeen books, two more forthcoming; eight chapbooks; two translations. Eudora Welty Professor Emerita of English and Evjue-Bascom Professor Emerita in the Humanities, University of Wisconsin Madison. Currently interested in short-term positions (a semester or less).

UPCOMING WORK

  • GIRL IN A LIBRARY: ON WOMEN WRITERS AND THE WRITING LIFE (BkMk Press 2009). THE RETREATS OF THOUGHT: POEMS (LSU Press 2009).

PUBLISHERS

  • Louisiana State University Press BkMk Press Soho Press University of Tampa Press etc.