Finney, Nikky

LC control no.	n 84162079
Descriptive conventions	rda
LC classification	PS3556.I53
Personal name heading	Finney, Nikky *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Finney, Lynn Carol Nikky
Associated country	Columbia (S.C.)
Associated place	Sumter (S.C.)
Address	finneylc@mailbox.sc.edu
Birth date	1957-08-26
Place of birth	Conway (S.C.)
Field of activity	Creative writing Poetry Creative writing African Americans--Study and teaching
Affiliation	Atlanta University University of South Carolina Talladega College University of Kentucky
Profession or occupation	Poets College teachers
Found in	Her On wings made of gauze, 1985: CIP t.p. (Nikky Finney) Her Rice, c1995: t.p. (Nikky Finney) t.p. verso (cprt. by Lynn Carol Nikky Finney) about the poet (b. in Conway, S.C. on August 26, 1957) State of the heart, 2018: page 215 (Nikky Finney was born by the sea in South Carolina ; For twenty-one years she taught creative writing at the University of Kentucky and now holds the John H. Bennett, Jr., Chair in Creative Writing and Southern Letters at the University of South Carolina in Columbia) Poetry Foundation web site, October 23, 2018: (Poet Nikky Finney was born in 1957 in South Carolina. Finney is the Provost's Distinguished Service Professor of English at the University of Kentucky, and lives in Lexington.) <https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/nikky-finney> University of South Carolina, College of Arts and Sciences web site, October 23, 2018: (Nikky Finney, John H. Bennett, Jr. Endowed Professor of Creative Writing and Southern Letters, Department: English Language and Literature College of Arts and Sciences ; finneylc@mailbox.sc.edu ; Education: Talladega College, 1979 ; Nikky Finney was born in Conway, South Carolina and raised in Sumter. She left South Carolina after high school with her eyes and heart set on becoming a writer. After living and studying primarily in the south, Talladega College in Alabama and Atlanta University in Georgia, she moved to the Oakland, California for several years but was invited in the early 1990's to teach at the University of Kentucky. For 21 years she taught poetry and fiction in Lexington. In 2013 she became Professor Emeritus at the University of Kentucky and accepted the John H. Bennett, Jr. Chair in Creative Writing and Southern Letters at the University of South Carolina. She has a joint appointment in the department of English Language and Literature and the African American Studies program. African American history, the history of America, as well as topics in Popular Culture, Gender and Sexuality, Art, Race and Social Justice are at the core of her work.) <https://www.sc.edu/study/colleges_schools/artsandsciences/our-people/faculty-staff/finney_nikky.php>
Associated language	eng