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Nikky Finney

1957–

United States

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Nikky Finney (born Lynn Carol Finney on August 26, 1957) is an American poet. She was the Guy Davenport Endowed Professor of English at the University of Kentucky for twenty years. In 2013, she accepted a position at the University of South Carolina as the John H. Bennett, Jr.

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