PUBLISHER OF POETRY, FICTION, & NONFICTION

Sharon Kennedy-Nolle is the author of the chapbook Black Wick: Selected Elegies (Variant Literature, 2021), which was a semifinalist for the 2018 Tupelo Snowbound Chapbook Contest and a 2020 Chapbook Editor’s Pick by Variant Literature Press. Her full-length manuscript, Not Waving, was a 2021 finalist for the Black Lawrence Press St. Lawrence Book Award, a 2021 and 2022 semifinalist for the University of Wisconsin Poetry Series Brittingham and Felix Pollak Prizes, and a 2022 semifinalist for the Two Sylvias Press Wilder Prize and the Brick Road Poetry Contest.

We checked in with Sharon Kennedy-Nolle to talk about her work since the publication of Black Wick, her time as Poet Laureate of Sullivan County, and the questions shaping her current writing.