Cherry, Kelly

Kelly Cherry is the author of twenty-one books of fiction (long and short), poetry, memoir, essay, and criticism. She has also published nine chapbooks and translations of two classical dramas. Her most recent titles are "The Life and Death of Poetry" (March 2013) and the chapbook "Vectors: J. Robert Oppenheimer: The Years Before the Bomb". Her fiction has appeared in "Best American Short Stories", "Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards", "The Pushcart Prize", and "New Stories from the South, " and has won three PEN Syndicated Fiction awards. Her story collection "The Society of Friends" (which,