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About the Author
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Kelly Cherry has pre vi ously pub lished twenty-one books (nov els, sto ries, poetry, me moir, crit i cism, and re views), nine chap books, and two trans la tions of clas si cal drama. Her new est full-length col lec tion of poems, The Life and Death of Poetry, was pub lished by Loui siana State Uni ver sity Press in 2013 and her new est chap book, a group of poems ti tled Vec tors, ap peared from Par allel Press in De cem ber 2012. She was the first re cip i ent of the Hanes Poetry Prize given by the Fel low ship of South ern Writ ers for a body of work. Other awards in clude fel low ships from the Na tional Endow ment for the Arts and the Rocke feller Foun da tion, the Brad ley Major Achieve ment (Life time) Award, a USIS Speaker Award (the Phi lip pines), a Dis tin guished Alum nus Award, three Wis con sin Arts Board fel low ships, two WAB New Work awards, the Dic tion ary of Lit er ary Biog ra phy Year book Award for Dis tin guished Book of Sto ries in 1999 (2000), and se lec tion as a Wis con sin Not able Au thor. Her sto ries have ap peared in Best American Short Sto ries, The O. Henry Awards: Sto ries, The Push cart Prize, and New Sto ries from the South. In 2010, she was a Director’s Vis i tor at the In sti tute for Ad vanced Study in Prince ton. In 2012, she re ceived both the Tar a muto Prize for a story and the Ca role Wein stein Prize for Poetry. In 2013, she re ceived the L. E. Phil la baum Award for Poetry. For mer Poet Lau reate of Vir ginia and cur rently a mem ber of the Electo rate for Poets Cor ner at the Ca the dral of St. John the Di vine in New York, she is Eu dora Welty Pro fes sor Em e rita of En glish and Evjue-Bascom Pro fes sor Em e rita in the Hu man ities at the Uni ver sity of Wis con sin–Mad i son. She and her hus band live in Vir ginia. Fur ther de tails ap pear on her Wik i pe dia page. ...