OCTOBER 13 - NOVEMBER 2, 2008
WRITER'S RESIDENCY

Application Deadline: May 23, 2008

KELLY CHERRY, fiction/poetry

Kelly Cherry is the author of seventeen books and eight chapbooks of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction (memoir, essays, and criticism). Her most recent titles are Hazard and Prospect: New and Selected Poems (2007), History, Passion, Freedom, Death, and Hope: Prose about Poetry (2005), Welsh Table Talk, a poetic sequence (2004), In the Wink of an Eye, a novel (rpt. 2004), We Can Still Be Friends, a novel (2003, paper 2004). Rising Venus: Poems (2002), My Life and Dr. Joyce Brothers: A Novel in Stories (rpt. 2002), The Society of Friends: Stories (1999), and Death and Transfiguration: Poems (1997). She has also published translations of Sophocles’s Antigone and Seneca’s Octavia. Forthcoming are a book of essays in (probably) 2008 and another book of poems in 2009. Eudora Welty Professor Emerita of English and Evjue-Bascom Professor Emerita in the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, she now lives on a small farm in southside Virginia, with her husband, Burke Davis, a fiction writer. She is currently working on another collection of short stories.

Residency Statement

I will work with three or four fiction writers and two or three poets. I confess to a special interest in work—whether fiction or poetry—that lends itself to development as sequence or cycle, but that is by no means a prerequisite. We will meet from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Thursday. Friday will be reserved for individual meetings focusing on work being discussed in the workshop and related subjects (personal goals, reading, etc.), or, on occasion, special groupings. I am likely to spend part of the workshop period on exercises that focus on various elements of fiction and/or poetry. Poets will be encouraged but not required to do exercises for fiction writers and vice versa. All Associates are expected to contribute helpful criticism in workshop.

Application Requirements

Please send a short story or three poems and a résumé.