Ranney Campbell worked as a reporter for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and Belleville News-Democrat, and subsequently covered spot news for Reuters International News Agency and was the St. Louis County election night stringer for the Associate Press. Her liberal arts B.A., concentrated in psychology, American politics, and public affairs journalism, and MFA in creative writing are from UM-St. Louis. Following her postgraduate experience in the academy, she perfectly attended the renowned Wednesday Night Poetry Workshop at Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center in Los Angeles for one year, one month, and one week, until it was closed by COVID-19, and deeply self-studied contemporary literary journals. She is artist and author of the poetry chapbooks, “Pimp,” and “Charcoal and Ink,” and author of the poetry chapbooks “the desert so,” and “Caddish,” and other of her work published numerously in literary journals, including Pinyon, Reed Magazine and Storm Cellar, and in the anthologies Covid, Isolation & Hope: Artists Respond to the Pandemic (Finishing Line Press), Essential Voices: A COVID-19 Anthology (West Virginia University Press), and Redshift 4 (Arroyo Seco Press). She is an adjunct writing professor.
Photo credit: Ranney Campbell, 2020.
The Life You Could Have: a memoir 