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Marilyn Kallet

kalletMarilyn Kallet is the author of 18 books, including How Our Bodies Learned, 2018, The Love That Moves Me, 2013, and Packing Light: New and Selected Poems, poetry from Black Widow Press. She is Poet Laureate of Knoxville, Tennessee. She has translated Paul Eluard’s Last Love Poems and Benjamin Péret’s The Big Game, among others. Dr. Kallet is Professor Emerita at the University of Tennessee, where she taught for 37 years. She also leads a writing residency for VCCA-France, in Auvillar. She has performed her poems on campuses and in theaters across the United States as well as in France and Poland, as a guest of the U.S. Embassy’s “America Presents” program. Currently she is working on a series of children’s books from the point-of-view of service dogs.

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One for Each Night: Chanukah Tales and Recipes
A beautifully illustrated story book containing eight delightful tales – one for each night of Chanukah – and ten enticing recipes to add to the festivities.

Jack the Healing Cat
Jacques le chat guerisseur
Heather discovers an abandoned kitten, and brings him home. When Heather becomes ill, Jack senses it. But will he be able to rescue her with his special kitty powers?

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Excellence in Fiction:

ForeWord Reviews 2012 Book of the Year Award finalist in Historical Fiction: The Price of Peace by James B. Johnston

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Foreword Reviews’ 2013 INDIEFAB Book of the Year Award Finalist in Picture Books, Early Reader for Buddy: Dog of the Smokies

2003: Independent Publisher Book Award for Poetry

2003: Benjamin Franklin Award for Poetry/Literary Criticism

Excellence in Poetry:

Appalachian Writers Association Book of the Year: Ebbing & Flowing Springs by Jeff Daniel Marion

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