Kennedy, Jeffe

1966 -

Laramie, WY

jeffe@jeffekennedy.com

www.jeffekennedy.com

Albany County

Biographical and Professional Information

Jeffe Kennedy took the crooked road to writing, stopping off at neurobiology, religious studies and environmental consulting before her creative writing began appearing in places like Redbook, Mountain Living, Wyoming Wildlife and Under the Sun. She has been a Ucross Foundation Fellow (2001) and received first place from Pronghorn Press for their Dry Ground (2002) collection. She is also a Wyoming Arts Council roster artist and recipient of the 2005 Doubleday Award and 2007 Fellowship for Poetry. Jeffe has contributed to several anthologies, Drive: Women's True Stories of the Open Road. (2002), Hard Ground (2003) and Bombshells (2007). Her first collection, Wyoming Trucks, True Love and the Weather Channel was published by University of New Mexico Press in 2004. Jeffe lives in Laramie, Wyoming, with two Maine coon cats, a border collie, and a fish pathologist.

Genres

Essay

Nonfiction

Wyoming Subjects

Titles

• Wyoming Trucks, True Love, and the Weather Channel (2004). Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press. ISBN: 0826333699.

Awards

• 2007 Wyoming Arts Council Creative Writing Fellowship in Poetry

Speaking Engagements

Accepts speaking engagements.

Contact:

Jeffe Kennedy

via email

or

through Wyoming Arts Council

http://wyoarts.state.wy.us/ARkennedy.html

Amanda Sutton, Publicist

University of New Mexico Press

asutton@unm.edu

Upcoming appearances

Wyoming Book Festival Sept. 14-15, 2007, Cheyenne, Wyoming.

Links

Author feature in the Fall 2004 Wyoming Library Roundup magazine, pp. 15, 25. PDF 4.13 MB