Leatha Kendrick
2010
Leatha Kendrick is the author of three volumes of poetry, the most recent one, Second Opinion (2008). She currently leads workshops in poetry and life writing at the Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning in Lexington, Kentucky. She is a frequent presenter at the Appalachian Writers Workshop and other regional writing conferences.
Leatha leads workshops in writing and healing at regional and national conferences and has been a presenter at several Associated Writers and Writing Programs’ annual meetings. Her poems and essays appear widely in journals and anthologies.
The recipient of grants in both poetry and fiction from the Kentucky Arts Council and the Kentucky Foundation of Women, she is at work on a novel, entitled Leavings.
Leatha Kendrick has been awarded an Al Smith Fellowship in recognition of artistic excellence for professional artists in Kentucky through the Kentucky Arts Council, the state arts agency, which is supported by state tax dollars and federal funding from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Trust the process.
The snail shell I photographed on one of my poems in process reminds me that it takes a long time to realize how slow everything is-- especially writing.
Brief Biography
Leatha Kendrick is
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✦ author of three volumes of poetry – most recently, Second Opinion (2008).
Poems and essays appear in
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✦ The Kentucky Anthology—Two Hundred Years of Writing in the Bluegrass State
Co-editor of
Scriptwriter for
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✦ A Lasting Thing for the World—The Photography of Doris Ulmann, a documentary film.
A two-time recipient of the Al Smith Fellowship in Poetry from the Kentucky Arts Council, she has also received fellowships in both poetry and fiction from the Kentucky Foundation for Women.
She leads workshops in poetry and life writing at the Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning in Lexington, KY, and works as a freelance editor.
Kendrick holds an MFA from Vermont College.
