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Kathy Lou Schultz

American writer

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Source revisionDec 22, 2025
Entity authorityQ6377260 ↗
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Kathy Lou Schultz (born November 30, 1966) is an American author and poet from Burke, South Dakota.

Early life and education

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

After graduating from Kearney High School, Schultz attended undergraduate programs at Columbia University and Oberlin College; she was of the first generation in her family to attend college. She also received an MFA in poetry and American literature at San Francisco State University and a PhD in English from the University of Pennsylvania, where her research interests included poetry and poetics, modernism, and African American literature.

Career

Schultz spent a decade in the Bay area working on her poetry and prose, editing a journal of experimental literature titled 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 in 2006. Her monograph, The Afro-Modernist Epic and Literary History: Tolson, Hughes, Baraka was published in 2013 as part of the Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics Series from Palgrave, edited by Rachel Blau DuPlessis. It was released in paperback in 2016.

Currently, Schultz is a professor in the English department at the University of Memphis, where she also is the Director of the Program in Women's and Gender Studies. Previously, she was Director of the English Honors Program.

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Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1966, 2000, 2006, 2013—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1966-01-01. The account is most persuasive where Kathy, Schultz and American can be independently traced.
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Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 22, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q6377260. VIAF identifies the subject as 26610840. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1966, 2000, 2006 and 2013.

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This entry incorporates text from “Kathy Lou Schultz” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.