Biography
Kelly Cherry
Kelly Cherry was born in 1940 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Kelly Cherry obtains two degrees in which she received during her schooling. She received a bachelor's degree form Mary Washington University and an M.F.A. from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Kelly Cherry is an author of many books while also an English professor at the University of Wisconsin, which is located in Madison. Her first collection of poetry was in the year 1975. Kelly Cherry has been recognized for her work more than once; she received the Pushcart prize in 1977, National Endowment for Arts Fellowship in 1980, and Pen Syndicated Friction Award in the year 1983. Kelly Cherry wrote about the Alzheimer's disease because her father suffered from this illness.
More Works
Banger Finds Out: A Story
Surprised by Joy
Looking for My Dead Mother's Phone Number
Kelly Cherry in Her Poetry: The Subject as Object
String Theory
Some anti-Bridgets
We Can Still Be Friends
Subterranean
Changeable Thunde
The Painted Bed
Rising Venus
The Poetics of Womanhood