Nicole Terez Dutton Takes the Reins at Kenyon Review

The Kenyon Review has announced that poet, teacher, and editor Nicole Terez Dutton will take over as editor, succeeding David H. Lynn, who is retiring after 26 years. "Dutton is currently poetry editor at The Baffler as well as the managing editor of Transition Magazine and the Du Bois Review, both affiliated with the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard University." More:

She holds an MFA from Brown University, and teaches in the Solstice Low-Residency MFA Program of Pine Manor College as well as the writing program at Emerson College.

Her collection of poems If One of Us Should Fall (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2012) won the 2011 Cave Canem Poetry Prize. Her work has appeared in Callaloo, Ploughshares, 32 Poems, Indiana Review, and Salt Hill Journal. She has received fellowships from the Frost Place, the Fine Arts Work Center, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.

Dutton will move to Ohio—and KR’s home on the Kenyon College campus in Gambier—from Somerville, Massachusetts, where in 2015 she was chosen as the city’s inaugural poet laureate.

“The position of editor of the Review is significant and challenging, especially in view of the accomplishments of David Lynn for more than twenty years,” said John Adams, who chairs the KR board. “But there is no person more capable of stepping into the role than Nicole. The Review is fortunate, indeed, to engage such a talented person.”

Congrats to Dutton! We look forward to her tenure at the journal.