Marilyn Kallet

Marilyn Kallet is an award-winning poet and Director of the Creative Writing Program at UTK. Author of eight books, including poetry, translations, anthologies, and criticism, she received her MA and PhD in Comparative Literature from Rutgers. Her most recent book, How to Get Heat Without Fire, followed In the Great Night, and her poetry collection Devils Live So Near. She recently co-edited (with Judith Ortiz Cofer) a collection of personal essays by women authors titled Sleeping with One Eye Open: Women Writers on the Art of Survival. Her poetry has appeared in many literary magazines, including New Letters, Denver Quarterly, and International Quarterly.

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