Ranney Campbell

Ranney Campbell worked as a staff writer at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and Belleville News-Democrat before freelancing for Reuters International News Agency and the Associated Press. She is author and artist of the poetry chapbooks, "Pimp," and "Charcoal and Ink," and author of the poetry chapbooks, “Caddish,” (Arroyo Seco Press) and "the desert so,” (Bottlecap Press). Other of her poetry and prose works have appeared in Haight Ashbury Literary Journal, Reed Magazine, Eastern Iowa Review, Twelve Winters, Storm Cellar, and elsewhere. Her BA, with concentrations in psychology, American politics, public affairs journalism, writing and gender, and MFA in fiction are from the University of Missouri-St. Louis. She is from St. Louis, but lives in California.

PHOTO: On the back porch of Brown's in the Hyde Park Neighborhood of St. Louis, where Campbell's father fought Golden Gloves and, on the night in 1985 this picture was taken, her brother played lead guitar in the death metal band, Karcass.