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.

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 directs the English Honors Program.

Schultz is an activist as well, working for a variety of feminist, anti-racist and peace movements since her youth, and actively organizing against the first Gulf War as part of a statewide, grassroots peace organization. Her areas of interest includes African-American poetry as well as the poetry of the African diaspora.

Her monograph, The Afro-Modernist Epic and Literary History: Tolson, Hughes, Baraka was published in 2013 as part of the Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics Series from Palgrave, edited by Rachel Blau DuPlessis.

• Re dress (San Francisco State University, 1994) selected for the Michael Rubin Award
• Genealogy (a+bend press, 1999)
• Some Vague Wife (Atelos Press, 2002)
• Biting Midge: Works in Prose (Belladonna, 2008)

• "Electronic Poetry Review #5--". Retrieved 20 September 2014. 
• "Kathy Lou Schultz: Some Vague Wife". Retrieved 20 September 2014.