Kelly Cherry

Creative Nonfiction Writer, Fiction Writer, Poet

Halifax, VA

Virginia US

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Author's Bio

I have have published 27 books of poetry, fiction, criticism, memoir, and essay, 10 chapbooks, and translations of two classical dramas. QUARTET FOR J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER: A POEM (in shorter poems), TEMPORIUM: FICTIONS, and BEHOLDER'S EYE: POEMS were published in 2017. L.S.U. Press published my full-length collection of poems, THE LIFE AND DEATH OF POETRY, in 2013. I have several other books—fiction, poetry, and nonfiction—in progress.

Publications & Prizes

Creative Nonfiction

Books:

A Kelly Cherry Reader (Stephen F. Austin State University Press, 2015)

Hazard and Prospect: New and Selected Poems (Louisiana State University Press, 2007)

History, Passion, Freedom, Death, and Hope: Prose about Poetry (University of Tampa Press, 2005)

In the Wink of an Eye (Louisiana State University Press, 2004)

Rising Venus (Louisiana State University Press, 2002)

Augusta Played (Louisiana State University Press, 1998)

Writing the World (University of Missouri Press, 1995)

Journal:

Atlantic Monthly

Fiction

Anthology:

Antigone, in Sophocles 2, ed. Slavitt (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999)

Books:

Twelve Women in a Country Called America (Press 53, 2015)

A Kind of Dream (University of Wisconsin Press, 2014)

Girl in a Library: On Women Writers and the Writing Life (BkMk Press-UMKC, 2009)

Welsh Table Talk (Book Arts Conservatory, 2004)

We Can Still Be Friends [my title: American Minuet] (Soho Press, 2003)

My Life and Dr. Joyce Brothers:A Novel in Stories (University of Alabama Press, 2002)

Relativity: A Point of View (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2000)

The Society of Friends: Stories (University of Missouri Press, 1999)

Death and Transfiguration (Louisiana State University Press, 1997)

The Exiled Heart (Louisiana State University Press, 1991)

The Lost Traveller's Dream (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1984)

Sick and Full of Burning (Viking, 1974)

Chapbooks:

The Globe and the Brain: On Place in Fiction (Talking River, 2006)

Conversion (Treacle Press, 1979)

Journals:

Commentary

Ms.

Poetry

Anthology:

Seneca: The Tragedies, Vol. II, ed. Bovie and Slavitt (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995)

Books:

Temporium: Fictions (Press 53, 2017)

The Retreats of Thought: Poems (Louisiana State University Press, 2009)

Lovers and Agnostics (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1995)

God's Loud Hand (Louisiana State University Press, 1993)

Natural Theology (Louisiana State University Press, 1987)

Chapbooks:

Physics for Poets (Unicorn Press, 2015)

An Other Woman (Somers Rocks Press, 2000)

The Poem: An Essay (Sandhills Press, 1999)

Time out of Mind (March Street Press, 1994)

Benjamin John: A Poem (March Street Press, 1993)

Songs for a Soviet Composer (Singing Wind, 1980)

More Information

Gives readings:

Yes

Travels for readings:

Yes

Prefers to work with:

Adults, Seniors

Born in:

Baton Rouge

Raised in:

Richmond, VA

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Last update: Oct 27, 2017