A.J. Verdelle
Encyclopedia
Life
She is the daughter of A.Y. and Patricia (Howell) Jones.She attended a private Catholic girls' high school in Washington, D.C.
She graduated from the University of Chicago
University of Chicago
The University of Chicago is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It was founded by the American Baptist Education Society with a donation from oil magnate and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller and incorporated in 1890...
, the University of Chicago
University of Chicago
The University of Chicago is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It was founded by the American Baptist Education Society with a donation from oil magnate and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller and incorporated in 1890...
with an M.A. in 1986, and from Bard College
Bard College
Bard College, founded in 1860 as "St. Stephen's College", is a small four-year liberal arts college located in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York.-Location:...
with an M.F.A. in 1993.
She studied statistics, moved to Brooklyn, New York, and founded her own statistics consulting firm in 1988.
She taught at Princeton University
Princeton University
Princeton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution....
, Vermont College, and Lesley University
Lesley University
Lesley University is a private, coeducational university in Boston, Massachusetts and Cambridge, Massachusetts.The university is a member of the New England Association of Schools and Colleges, National Association of Schools of Art and Design, and New England Collegiate Conference.-History:The...
.
Verdelle lives in Lexington, Kentucky with her partner, poet Nikky Finney
Nikky Finney
Nikky Finney is an award-winning American poet, and the Provost’s Distinguished Service Professor of English at the University of Kentucky...
, and her daughter.
Awards
- Los Angeles Times book prize
- PEN/Faulkner finalist
- Vursell Award, American Academy of Arts and Letters
- 1996 Whiting Writers' AwardWhiting Writers' AwardThe Whiting Writers' Award is an American award presented annually to ten emerging writers in fiction, nonfiction, poetry and plays. The award is sponsored by the Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation and has been presented since 1985. As of 2007, winners receive US $50,000.-External links:**...