Killarney Clary

Killarney Clary is an American poet who was recently awarded a 2011 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship for Poetry. Her first book, Who Whispered Near Me, was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. Clary received the Lannan Literary Award for Poetry in 1992.

Biography Born in 1953 and raised in Pasadena, California, Clary began crafting her unique style of poetry at age 12. She has since been published in numerous publications including: The Boston Review, The Yale Review, American Poetry Review, The Paris Review, and many others. Killarney Clary has published several books of poetry: Who Whispered Near Me (1989), By Common Salt (1996), Potential Stranger (2003), Shadow of A Cloud but no Cloud (2014).

Clary attended the University of California, Irvine, where she received degrees in studio art and poetry writing. She has taught at the University of California at Irvine and at the Iowa Writer's Workshop.