Eleanor Kedney
Tucson Director Emerita
is the author of Twelve Days from Transfer (3:A Taos Press), Between the Earth and Sky (C&R Press, 2020), a finalist for the 2021 New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards and the 2020 Best Book Awards, and the chapbook The Offering (Liquid Light Press, 2016). An award-winning poet, her work has been published in various journals, magazines, and anthologies, including Literary Matters, New Ohio Review, New York Quarterly, and Under a Warm Green Linden. Kedney is the founder of The Writers Studio Tucson branch and served as the director for ten years. Eleanor lives in Tucson, Arizona, and Stonington, Connecticut with her husband, Peter Schaffer, their dog, Fred, and their cat, Ivy.