Kelly Cherry
Agent: Elizabeth Sheinkman, Curtis Brown London
Madison, Wisconsin, United States Email: KCherry@wisc.edu Eudora Welty Professor Emerita of English and Evjue-Bascom Professor Emerita in the Humanities, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Recently Visiting Eminent Scholar at the Humanities Center, University of Alabama-Huntsville; NEH Professor of the Humanities, Colgate University; Wyndham Robertson Writer-in-Residence, Hollins University, Virginia; Ferrol Sams, Jr., Distinguished Chair in English, Mercer University; Master Artist, Atlantic Center for the Arts; Louis D. Rubin, Jr., Writer-in-Residence, Hollins.
NEA, Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship, Hanes Prize for Poetry (body of work), USIS (Philippines), Yaddo, VCCA, Hawthornden, Ragdale, Auvillar, Best American Short Stories, Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards, The Pushcart Prize, New Stories from the South, Wisc. Arts Board fellowships (3), USIS Speaker Award (Philippines), PEN/Syndicated Fiction Award (3), Dictionary of Literary Biography Award for Best Book of Short Stories (for The Society of Friends), Finalist Poets' Prize, Silver award ForeWord, VCCA exchange with Russia, etc.
Member, Board, AWP, 1991-94; Fulbright Selection Committee; Elector, Poets Committee, Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine, 2009-2014. Interests: Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction, etc.
Published writer: Yes
Freelance: Yes |
