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Debi Milligan |
Kathleen Aguero’s most
recent book of poetry, Daughter
Of, is published by
Cedar Hill Books. She is also the author of two previous
books of poetry, Thirsty
Day (Alice James Books)
and The Real Weather (Hanging
Loose Press). Kathleen has edited three volumes of multicultural
literature published by the University of Georgia Press:
A Gift of Tongues and An Ear to the Ground (co-edited
with Marie Harris), and Daily
Fare. She also has
an essay in the anthology, Why
I’m Still Married.
Her work has been published in many literary journals
and anthologized in Poetry
from Sojourner: A Feminist Anthology,
Learning by Heart: Contemporary
American Poetry about School,
Pierced by a Ray of Sun,
Peeling the Onion,
and City River of Voices.
She has been a recipient
of grants from the Massachusetts Council on the Arts
and the Elgin Cox Foundation, a fellow at the Virginia
Center for the Creative Arts, and a Visiting Research
Associate at the Brandeis University Women’s Studies
Research Center.
Kathleen teaches in Changing
Lives Through Literature, “an alternative
sentencing program based on the power of literature
to change lives through reading and group discussion,”
and is a Professor of English at Pine Manor College
in Chestnut Hill, MA, teaching in their low-residency
MFA program as well as in their undergraduate program.
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