Kelly Norman Ellis
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Kelly Norman Ellis is the Poetry Editor at THIRD WORLD PRESS FOUNDATION and English Professor, Department Chair, and Director of Creative Writing at Chicago State University. Author of ”Tougaloo Blues” and Offerings of Desire, she is a co-editor of ”Spaces Between Us: Poetry, Prose and Art on AIDS/HIV”. Her work has appeared in Crab Orchard Review, Sou’Wester, PMS poemmemoirstory, Tidal Basin Review, Calyx, and The Ringing Ear. In 2010 Essence Magazine voted her one of their forty favorite poets. She is a Cave Canem Poetry Fellow and founding member of the Affrilachian Poets.
Offerings of desire : | Tougaloo blues /