![]() ![]() In 1985, and at the age of 26, Finney's debut collection of poetry, On Wings Made of Gauze, was published by William Morrow (a division of HaperCollins). With these instrumental eras circling her, Finney's work provides first-person literary accounts to some of the most important events in American history. The daughter of activists and educators, she began writing in the midst of the Civil Rights and Black Arts Movements. Finney's next full-length collection of poetry and portraits, RICE (Sister Vision Press, 1995), was awarded the PEN America-Open Book Award, which was followed by a collection of short stories entitled Heartwood (University Press of Kentuck Nikky Finney was born at the rim of the Atlantic Ocean, in South Carolina, in 1957. ![]() ![]() Nikky Finney was born at the rim of the Atlantic Ocean, in South Carolina, in 1957. ![]()
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