After a career at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, Kelly Cherry retired to Virginia but taught and wrote for a few semesters at the University of Alabama in Huntsville as Visiting Eminent Scholar. Colleagues and students there remember her warmly, and she says of that time: ?teaching at UAH was one of the great pleasures of my life.?
Cherry is the author of 27 previous volumes of fiction, essays, poetry and translations from Greek and Latin. This is a mature, accomplished writer who shares in these essays, ?Girl in A Library,? a variety of memories of her life as a woman writer and a variety of opinions on which women writers we might pay more attention to.