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Curation Date
2015
Image Source
Image loaned with permission from Nikky Finney
Accession Number in UK Libraries Special Collections
Image online at http://nikkyfinney.net/press_kit.html
Additional Notes
View videos at the Nikky Finney website.
Keywords
Nikky Finney, Lesbians, African Americans, Affrilachian Poets

Description
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]