Profile

Sharon Kennedy-Nolle holds a PhD in nineteenth-century American literature and an MFA from the Writers’ Workshop, University of Iowa. She also holds MAs from Johns Hopkins University and NYU. Her book, Writing Reconstruction: Race, Gender, and Citizenship in the Postwar South, was the 2015 selection for the Gender and American Culture Series of UNC Press. In addition to scholarly publications, her chapbook, Black Wick: Selected Elegies, was chosen as the 2020 Editor’s Pick by Variant Literature Press. Kennedy-Nolle was winner of the New Ohio Review’s 2021 poetry contest and a 2021 finalist for the Black Lawrence Press’s St. Lawrence Book Award.