Jo Ann Kiser

I have been fortunate in spending most of my childhood surrounded by family in the beautiful hills of eastern Kentucky. In my adult life I have been lucky, too, among other things working at The New Yorker as a checker, writing a dissertation on Proust for the University of Chicago, and teaching briefly at Kentucky's Morehead State University and at Tennessee Technological University. But writing is the most important career for me and has been since I was a child.