“So - you can write pretty,” Bambara said. While working as a photographer, writer, and editor for the National Black Woman’s Health Project in Atlanta, she began focusing her creative energy on poetry.įinney says she became a serious poet after her mentor, the short story writer Toni Cade Bamara, asked her a pointed question during a writing circle meeting at Bambara’s Atlanta home. from Talladega College in 1979 and studied African American literature at Atlanta University. She acquired the nickname Nikky in college.įinney earned a B.A. She grew up in Sumter, South Carolina, where she attended public and parochial schools. Finney Jr., a civil rights lawyer who later became a state legislator and the first Black elected chief justice of the South Carolina Supreme Court. Lynn Carol Finney was one of three children, and the only daughter, born to Frances Davenport Finney and Ernest A. “The human heart,” she told an interviewer, “is at the center of what I write about.” A founding member of the Affrilachian Poets, her writing is remarkable for its visual, lyrical and powerful use of words. Nikky Finney, a poet and teacher, has emerged as one of America’s most prominent and eloquent Black voices on issues of racial and social justice. Born: August 26, 1957, Conway, South Carolina.
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