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Nikky Finney was awarded the 2011 National Book Award in Poetry for Head Off and Split. She is a poet, author, co-founder of Affrilachian Poets, Guy Davenport Endowed Professor of English at the University of Kentucky, 1992-2012. Nikky Finney is a lesbian. [UK NKAA Database link http://nkaa.uky.edu/record.php?note_id=1024]

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2015

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Image loaned with permission from Nikky Finney

Accession Number in UK Libraries Special Collections

Image online at http://nikkyfinney.net/press_kit.html

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View videos at the Nikky Finney website.

Keywords

Nikky Finney, Lesbians, African Americans, Affrilachian Poets

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