Kathy Lou Schultz

Kathy Lou Schultz (born November 30, 1966) is an American author and poet from Burke, South Dakota.

Early life and education She was born on November 30, 1966, to Lewis and Jeanne Schultz, who soon after moved the family to Kearney, Nebraska.

After graduating from Kearney High School, Schultz attended undergraduate programs at Columbia University and Oberlin College; she was of the first generation in her family to attend college. and working in the publishing industry. She relocated to Philadelphia in 2000, where she completed a PhD in literature at the University of Pennsylvania in 2006. Her monograph, The Afro-Modernist Epic and Literary History: Tolson, Hughes, Baraka was published in 2013 as part of the Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics Series from Palgrave, edited by Rachel Blau DuPlessis. It was released in paperback in 2016.

Currently, Schultz is a professor in the English department at the University of Memphis, where she also is the Director of the Program in Women's and Gender Studies. Previously, she was Director of the English Honors Program. Genealogy (a+bend press, 1999) Some Vague Wife (Atelos Press, 2002) Biting Midge: Works in Prose (Belladonna, 2008)