Blanche Taylor Dickinson

Blanche Taylor Dickinson was a poet, short story writer and journalist whose poetry was published in a number of magazines and newspapers in the 1920s and has been widely anthologized […]

Madison Cawein

Madison Julius Cawein was a nationally popular poet from Louisville in the decades before and after the turn of the 20th century. Most of his poetry was about nature, extolling […]

Richard Taylor

Richard Lawrence Taylor, a sixth-generation Kentuckian who lives near Frankfort, is the author of 12 books of poetry, two novels and four books of nonfiction. His primary material has been […]

Marsha Norman

Marsha Norman is a prolific playwright, screenwriter and novelist who since the early 1980s has been one of the best-known writers in American drama. She has won the Pulitzer Prize, […]

Suzan-Lori Parks

Suzan-Lori Parks, the first African American woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for drama (2002), is a playwright, musician, novelist, essayist and performer who has been called one of the […]