Kelly Cherry.

A biography of novelist, poet, essayist, and activist Kelly Cherry is presented. Cherry was born on December 21, 1940 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. She married a visiting art historian and decided to abandon her writing ambitions in her last year of study at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Her achievements are mentioned. Her works include "Sick and Full of Burning," "Augusta Played," and "In the Wink of an Eye."