Kerri French is an American poet.
Originally from North Carolina, she received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She graduated from the University of North Carolina, Greensboro's Master of Fine Arts program in 2006. She has taught at Boston University and Mount Ida College. Her latest project, for DIAGRAM magazine, is a series of poems on British singer Amy Winehouse.
Her work appears in Agenda, Brooklyn Review, Fugue, Lumina, The Blotter, DIAGRAM, Natural Bridge, and foursquare editions, and she has broadcast her poems on Sirius Satellite Radio.
She currently resides in Tennessee.
2009 Larry Franklin and Mei Kwong Fellowship (Writers' Room of Boston)