Noms de Loon
y kendall is a Stanford-educated musicologist who returned to the role of student to earn an MFA in Creative Nonfiction at Columbia University, studying nonfiction writing with Ben Ratliff and Margo Jefferson. Kendall’s diverse works include poetry translations published in Alchemy: Journal of Translation, original poetry in the Bayou Review, creative nonfiction in Columbia Journal, and criticism in Music City Review. One of her short stories is a prizewinner in the soon-to-be-published Black Butterfly: Voices of the African Diaspora. Raised in Tennessee, Kendall now lives near Nashville, freelancing as a flutist and writer, while caregiving for elderly relatives and writing about that experience.
The Marbled Sigh 