Dr. Schultz’s poetry and experimental prose is published in numerous journals and anthologies, including Bombay Gin, Cleaver Magazine, Fence Magazine, Fourteen Hills, Marsh Hawk Review, Miracle Monocle, New American Writing, P Queue Literary Journal, Touch the Donkey, Women Poets on Mentorship: Efforts and Affections, and others.
She is also a multidisciplinary artist creating text-based paintings and collage artworks. Two new collage paintings are published by Black Lily.
Poet-scholar Dr. Kathy Lou Schultz is a 2025 Artist-in-Residence at the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts (Nebraska City), Ragdale (Lake Forest, Illinois), and The Centrum Foundation (Fort Worden, Washington). In 2026, she will be an Artist-in-Residence at the Vermont Studio Center. Her scholarship has been supported by the National Humanities Center (North Carolina) and the Marcus Orr Center for the Humanities (Tennessee). She is the winner of the College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Research Award in the Humanities from the University of Memphis. Dr. Schultz is the author of six books, including Introduction to Claudia Rankine (Lake Forest/Northwestern UP), The Afro-Modernist Epic and Literary History: Tolson, Hughes, Baraka (Palgrave MacMillan), Biting Midge: Works in Prose (Belladonna), and Some Vague Wife (Atelos Press).
Schultz’s essay, “An Epistemology of Self-Knowing: Suzanne Césaire, André Breton, and Caribbean Surrealism,” is the lead article in the current issue of AAR, dedicated to Black Surrealisms.
Hear Kathy Lou on a recent episode of POEMTALK at the Kelly Writers House in Philadelphia, where she was featured alongside Evie Shockley (Rutgers), Jane Malcolm (Univ. of Montreal), and Al Filreis (Univ. of Pennsylvania) discussing Muriel Rukeyser’s poem, “Waking This Morning.”https://jacket2.org/podcasts/make-touch-poems-poemtalk-210
André Breton, and Cribbean Surrealism,” is the lead article in the current issue of AAR dedicated to Black Surrealisms.
Dr. Schultz’s scholarship appears in leading journals and anthologies, including African American Review, The Cambridge Companion to Poetry and Politics Since 1900, Contemporary Literature, Journal of Modern Literature, Paideuma: Modern Poetry and Poetics, and Some Other Blues: New Perspectives on Amiri Baraka.
Kathy Lou Schultz: Award-Winning Poet & Scholar 