Kathy Lou Schultz

Kathy Lou Schultz is an award winning author and poet from Burke, South Dakota. She was born on November 30, 1966 to Lewis and Jeanne Schultz, who soon after moved the family to Kearney, Nebraska. 2Education After graduating from Kearney High School, Schultz attended undergraduate programs at Columbia University and Oberlin College; she was of the first generation in her family to attend college. She also received an MFA in poetry and American literature at San Francisco State University. Schultz spent a decade in the Bay area working on her poetry and prose, editing a journal of experimental literature titled Lipstick Eleven, and working in the publishing industry. She relocated to Philadelphia in 2000, where she completed a PhD in literature at the University of Pennsylvania in 2006. Currently Schultz is a professor in the English department at the University of Memphis, where she also is the Director of the Program in Women's and Gender Studies. Previously, she was Director of the English Honors Program. Her areas of interest includes African American poetry as well as the poetry of the African diaspora. She teaches courses in African American, American, and Afro-Diasporic literature; poetry and poetics; and modernis