Sarah Kennedy

Professor of English 540-887-7193
Sarah Kennedy

BA, MA, Butler University; PhD, Purdue University

https://sarahkennedybooks.com

Sarah Kennedy, Mary Baldwin professor of English, holds an MFA from Vermont College and a PhD from Purdue University. She is the author of seven books of poetry, most recently The Gold Thread, and the historical novels The Altarpiece, City of Ladies, and The King’s Sisters, books one, two, and three of the Cross and the Crown series. Sarah Kennedy has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Virginia Commission for the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. She is a contributing editor for Shenandoah and West Branch and serves as the faculty advisor for Mary Baldwin’s online literary and arts journal Outrageous Fortune.