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Nikky Finney


Born
in Conway, South Carolina, The United States
August 26, 1957

Genre
Poetry


Nikky Finney was born at the rim of the Atlantic Ocean, in South Carolina, in 1957. The daughter of activists and educators, she began writing in the midst of the Civil Rights and Black Arts Movements. With these instrumental eras circling her, Finney's work provides first-person literary accounts to some of the most important events in American history.

In 1985, and at the age of 26, Finney's debut collection of poetry, On Wings Made of Gauze, was published by William Morrow (a division of HaperCollins). Finney's next full-length collection of poetry and portraits, RICE (Sister Vision Press, 1995), was awarded the PEN America-Open Book Award, which was followed by a collection of short stories entitled Heartwood (University Press of Kentuck ...more

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Head Off & Split
4.12 avg rating — 1,387 ratings — published 2010 — 5 editions
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Love Child's Hotbed of Occa...
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Rice
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The World Is Round
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Heartwood
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On Wings Made of Gauze
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“The library, to me, is the second most sacred physical space on the planet.”
― Nikky Finney
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“Watch your life as if it were a film. Absorb everything. What you see, hear, and feel will stamp every alphabet of your work.”
― Nikky Finney
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“When a loved one dies it is right and proper to send a lost story about them or a small piece of change, to help out those who will before sunrise be dressed in their mourning clothes.”
― Nikky Finney, Love Child's Hotbed of Occasional Poetry: Poems & Artifacts
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