Nikky Finney

Nikky Finney was born by the sea in South Carolina and raised during the Civil Rights, Black Power, and Black Arts movements. She is the author of “On Wings Made of Gauze,” “Rice,” “The World Is Round,” and “Head Off & Split,” which won the National Book Award for Poetry in 2011. Her new collection of poems, “Love Child’s Hotbed of Occasional Poetry,” is forthcoming in 2020 from TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern University Press.