The Sandor Teszler Library congratulates Nikky Finney on her induction into the South Carolina Academy of Authors.
Author Nikky Finney next to an excerpt of her poem “The Thinking Men” on permanent display in Wofford’s Old Main building, 2008.
Finney’s 2008 poem “The Thinking Men” celebrates the builders of Wofford’s Old Main.
Finney is the author of several books of poetry and prose, editor of another, and, after 20 years of teaching at the University of Kentucky, will begin in the Fall of 2013 her tenure as the John H. Bennett, Jr. Chair of Creative Writing and Southern Literature at the University of South Carolina (Columbia).
For a biography and full list of publications, visit Finney’s website.