Author
Ackerson-Kiely is the author of In No One's Land (Ahsahta Press, 2007), a book of poetry that was selected for the 2006 Sawtooth Poetry Prize by D. A. Powell. [2] This book also won the award for Poets & Writers Exchange. [3] Her second full-length collection of poetry, My Love is a Dead Arctic Explorer (Ahsahta Press, 2012) [4] began as a response to Admiral Richard E. Byrd's memoir, Alone. In February, 2019, Penguin/Random House published her third volume of poetry, Dolefully, A Rampart Stands. [5] About this collection, Publishers Weekly wrote that the "language here is stark and devastating." [6]
Ackerson-Kiely has produced a limited edition art folio, This Landscape (Argos Books 2010), [7] and prose chapbook Book About a Candle Burning in a Shed (above/ground 2011). [8] She has been published in Pleiades , Bellingham Review, Ninth Letter , jubilat, LIT, and The Laurel Review. [9] In 2009 she was one of the featured authors in the all-poetry edition of The Laurel Review, an edition that was dedicated to the memory of poet Reginald Shepherd. [10] She is currently a co-editor for Black Ocean's poetry journal Handsome, [11] associate director of the Program in Writing at Sarah Lawrence College, [12] and faculty member at the New England College MFA program. [13]
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