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Faculty Recognition
Kay Sloan wins New Women's Voices award
3/2006
Kay Sloan, Miami University professor of English, has received the "New Women's Voices" award for her chapbook, The Birds are on Fire. Finishing Line Press, presenter of the award, will publish the poetry book this month.
The Birds are on Fire is Sloan’s sixth book. It follows two novels including The Patron Saint of Red Chevys released in 2004, two books of American cultural history and an edited collection of short stories. Original art for the book’s cover is by Cincinnati artist Joan Effertz.
Sloan received a doctorate in American studies from the University of Texas at Austin. She joined Miami’s faculty as director of American studies in 1984. Her teaching interests include creative writing, contemporary American fiction, Southern literature and culture, and women and film. A film documentary she produced and directed, “Suffragettes in the Silent Cinema,” is currently being shown in Paris, Spain and Italy. Another current project concerns World War II prisoner of war memoirs.
Finishing Line Press is located in Georgetown, Ky