Kristi Maxwell receives grant from the Kentucky Foundation for Women

Kristi Maxwell receives grant from the Kentucky Foundation for Women

Dr. Kristi Maxwell

Congratulations to Kristi Maxwell, assistant professor of English, who has been awarded an Artist Enrichment Grant from the Kentucky Foundation for Women (KFW). This grant will support her work on a poetry manuscript-in-progress. The KFW is an organization that promotes positive social change by supporting varied feminist expression in the arts.

For more information on the grantees and the KFW, http://www.kfw.org/grants/grantees/.

Dr. Kristi Maxwell is the author of six books of poetry: Bright and Hurtless (Ahsahta Press), Realm Sixty-four (Ahsahta Press), Hush Sessions (Saturnalia Books), Re- (Ahsahta), That Our Eyes Be Rigged (Saturnalia), and PLAN/K (Horseless Press). She received a PhD in Creative Writing & Literature, along with a graduate certificate in Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies, from the University of Cincinnati and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Arizona, where she served as editor-in-chief of Sonora Review. She is an affiliate faculty member of the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies department.