Kathy Lou Schultz is an award winning author and poet from Burke, South Dakota

Burke, South Dakota

Burke is a city in Gregory County, South Dakota, United States. The population was 604 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Gregory County.-Geography:Burke is located at ....

. She was born on November 30, 1966 to Lewis and Jeanne Schultz. Lewis and Jeanne soon after moved the family to Kearney, NE.

Education

Kathy Lou attended undergraduate programs at Columbia University

Columbia University

Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...

 and Oberlin College

Oberlin College

Oberlin College is a private liberal arts college in Oberlin, Ohio, noteworthy for having been the first American institution of higher learning to regularly admit female and black students. Connected to the college is the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, the oldest continuously operating...

. She also received an MFA

Master of Fine Arts

A Master of Fine Arts is a graduate degree typically requiring 2–3 years of postgraduate study beyond the bachelor's degree , although the term of study will vary by country or by university. The MFA is usually awarded in visual arts, creative writing, filmmaking, dance, or theatre/performing arts...

 in poetry and American literature at San Francisco State University

San Francisco State University

San Francisco State University is a public university located in San Francisco, California. As part of the 23-campus California State University system, the university offers over 100 areas of study from nine academic colleges...

. Kathy Lou spent a decade in the Bay area working on her poetry and prose, editing "Lipstick Eleven", and working in the publishing industry. She relocated to Philadelphia in 2000, where she completed a PhD in literature at the University of Pennsylvania

University of Pennsylvania

The University of Pennsylvania is a private, Ivy League university located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Penn is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States,Penn is the fourth-oldest using the founding dates claimed by each institution...

 in 2006.

Poetry

• Re dress (San Francisco State University
  San Francisco State University
  San Francisco State University is a public university located in San Francisco, California. As part of the 23-campus California State University system, the university offers over 100 areas of study from nine academic colleges...
  
  , 1994) selected for the Michael Rubin Award
• Genealogy (a+bend press, 1999)
• Some Vague Wife (Atelos Press, 2002)
• Biting Midge: Works in Prose (Belladonna, 2008)