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Nikky Finney (Lynn Carol Finney) was born on 26 August, 1957 in Conway, South Carolina, U.S., is an American poet (born 1957). Discover Nikky Finney's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 66 years old?

Popular As Lynn Carol Finney
Occupation Poet and academic
Age 66 years old
Zodiac Sign Virgo
Born 26 August 1957
Birthday 26 August
Birthplace Conway, South Carolina, U.S.
Nationality United States

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Parents Ernest A. Finney, Jr. and Frances Davenport Finney
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1957

Nikky Finney (born Lynn Carol Finney on August 26, 1957, in Conway, South Carolina) is an American poet.

She was the Guy Davenport Endowed Professor of English at the University of Kentucky for twenty years.

1961

Finney's father began his career as a civil rights attorney, and in 1961, served as Head Legal Counsel for the Friendship 9, black junior college students arrested and charged when trying to desegregate McCrory's lunch counter in Rock Hill, South Carolina.

1975

Graduated from Sumter High School in 1975, Finney matriculated at Talladega College, an HBCU in Alabama, where she was mentored by poet and essayist Dr Gloria Wade Gayles.

1979

After studying with Dr. Howard Zehr and graduating from Talladega College in 1979, Finney began her artistic career as a photographer.

Finney committed to documenting the trajectory of African-American contributions to American creativity and culture.

In Alabama, Finney continued to advance as an autodidactic poet and creative artist.

Finney matriculated at Atlanta University, working in the African-American Studies department, under African-American historians Dr. Richard Long and Dr. David Dorsey.

While in Atlanta, Finney joined the Pamoja Writing Collective, the community writing workshop led by Toni Cade Bambara.

Finney also immersed herself in study of the poetry and visual arts of the Black Arts Movement.

Ultimately, limited potential for creative work in academic programs caused Finney to abandon the constraints of graduate study and return to Talladega to work as a photographer.

1985

Hired as photographer and reporter by Byllye Y. Avery, for the newly organized, Atlanta-based National Black Women's Health Project, Finney traveled to Nairobi, Kenya, for the End of the Decade of Women Conference in 1985, and covered the historic UN conference for the National Black Women's Health Project.

Finney's targeted result of her independent years was achieved: On Wings Made of Gauze, her first book of poems, was completed in Atlanta.

The book was read and ushered to the late Eunice Riedel by Nikki Giovanni.

Riedel acquired and edited On Wings Made of Gauze, which was published by William Morrow, in 1985.

After publication of her first book of poems, Finney relocated to the Bay Area, where she involved herself with progressive causes, and continued independent work as a poet.

1989

She was recruited to a position as Visiting Writer in the English department at the University of Kentucky (1989–90), by South Carolina-born novelist and poet Percival Everett.

1993

In 1993, Finney was offered a post on the permanent faculty.

1994

In 1994, Ernest Finney, Jr., was appointed by the State Legislature as the first African-American Chief Justice of South Carolina since Reconstruction.

Both of Finney's brothers are attorneys in South Carolina: her older brother, Ernest "Chip" Finney, III, elected Solicitor of the Third Judicial Circuit, and her younger brother, Jerry Leo Finney, in private practice in Columbia, SC.

Both Finney's parents were raised on the family-owned land: Justice Finney on a farm in Virginia, and Frances Davenport Finney on a farm in Newberry, SC.

Themes of the African-American relationship to the land surface throughout Finney's work.

Educated first in Catholic grade school, and then in South Carolina public schools during the riotous struggle over integration, Finney was anchored in her youth by her maternal grandmother Beulah Lenorah Butler Davenport and by the inimitable constancy of the nearby South Carolina sea.

A bookworm in childhood, she composed poetry and acquired the nickname "Nikky", likely in reference to poet Nikki Giovanni, who would later become a friend and mentor.

1995

Her second book of poetry, Rice, was completed in Lexington, Kentucky, and was published in 1995 by SisterVisions, a Canadian press.

1997

In 1997, Rice received a PEN American Open Book Award.

Rice stands as the book that brought Finney her many grassroots followers.

1998

Her story cycle Heartwood, designed for literacy students, was published in 1998, by the University Press of Kentucky.

1999

Finney took a leave from the University of Kentucky in 1999 to hold the Goode Chair in the Humanities at Berea College (founded in 1855), the first interracial and coeducational college in the South.

2003

After returning to the English Department at the University of Kentucky, Finney's third book of poetry, The World is Round, was published by Inner Light Publishing in 2003.

2005

In 2005, she became Full Professor in the English Department at the University of Kentucky.

2006

In 2006, she was appointed Interim Director of the African American Studies and Research Program at the University of Kentucky.

2007

After the publication of The World is Round, Finney was invited to Smith College, in Northampton, Massachusetts, where she served for two years as the Grace Hazard Conkling Writer-in-Residence, from 2007 to 2009.

Finney edited and wrote the introduction to The Ringing Ear: Black Poets Lean South, which was published by the University of Georgia Press in 2007, under the auspices of Cave Canem, an organization that works to increase opportunities for African-American poets.

The Ringing Ear, with entries selected and edited by Finney, showcased the work of one hundred African-American poets who are southern or who wrote on southern subjects.

2011

Her honors include the 2011 National Book Award for her collection Head Off & Split.

One of three children, Finney is the only daughter of Ernest A. Finney, Jr., civil rights attorney and retired Chief Justice of the state of South Carolina, and Frances Davenport Finney, elementary school teacher.

Finney's fourth book of poems, Head Off & Split, was published by Northwestern University Press in 2011.

2013

In 2013, she accepted a position at the University of South Carolina as the John H. Bennett, Jr. Chair in Southern Letters and Literature.

An alumna of Talladega College, and author of four books of poetry and a short-story cycle, Finney is an advocate for social justice and cultural preservation.