Kay Sloan

A different Kay Sloan is the President of the Massachusetts College of Art and Design.

Kay Sloan is professor of English at Miami University, and is a novelist, poet, and historian. She received her Ph.D. in American studies in 1984 from the University of Texas at Austin.
Kay Sloan (born April 11 1951) is an American novelist, cultural historian and poet. Her first book, Looking Far North: The Harriman Expedition to Alaska, 1899 (ISBN 9780670439973) was co-authored with the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian William H. Goetzmann and resulted in a PBS documentary, The Harriman Expedition: Re-Traced, in which contemporary scientist and artists re-visited the sites of the original expedition in 2001. Sloan is also the author of The Loud Silents: Origins of the Social Problem Film (ISBN 9780252015441), and the producer and director of a documentary on early silent film, Suffragettes in the Silent Cinema'" (. Her book, Not Without Honor: The Nazi POW Journals of Steve Carano (ISBN 9781557288844) brings together the stories of three American prisoners of war during World War II.
Sloan's novels, Worry Beads (978-0807116364), and The Patron Saint of Red Chevys (978-1579621049) are partly set in her native Mississippi during the 1960s. Respectively, they received the Ohioana Prize for Best Fiction and selection in the Barnes and Noble "Discover Great New Writers" series. Her short stories, essays, and poetry have appeared in numerous literary journals. In 2005, her poetry chapbook, The Birds Are On Fire (ISBN 9781599240466), won the New Women's Voices Award from Finishing Line Press.
Sloan was born in Hattiesburg, Mississippi and educated at Millsaps College, the University of California at Santa Cruz and the University of Texas at Austin, where she received her M.A. and Ph.D. in American Studies. She has been a professor of English at Miami University of Ohio since 1984 and has taught American Studies as a Fulbright Professor in Greece and Belgium.
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