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Published by Kathy Lou Schultz

Poet-scholar Dr. Kathy Lou Schultz, MFA, PhD is the 2024 winner of the College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Research Award in the Humanities from the University of Memphis, and a 2025 Artist-in-Residence awardee at Ragdale and Centrum. Schultz is the author of Introduction to Claudia Rankine (Lake Forest College/Northwestern UP) and The Afro-Modernist Epic and Literary History: Tolson, Hughes, Baraka (Palgrave), and four collections of poetry, including Biting Midge: Works in Prose (Belladonna) and Some Vague Wife (Atelos). Her first book, Re dress, was chosen by Pulitzer Prize-winner Forrest Gander for the Michael Rubin Award from San Francisco State University. Schultz’s scholarship appears in journals including African American Review, Contemporary Literature, Journal of Modern Literature, and anthologies including The Cambridge Companion to American Poetry and Politics Since 1900 and Rethinking the North American Long Poem: Matter, Form, Experiment (U of New Mexico P). Her poetry is published in journals and anthologies including Bombay Gin, Fence Magazine, Miracle Monocle, New American Writing, and Efforts and Affections: Women Poets on Mentorship (U of Iowa P). She performs on Dr. Guy’s MusiQologY's album, The Colored Waiting Room. View more posts