Adele Kenny is the author of 21 books (poetry and nonfiction). Over 600 of her poems, articles, and reviews have been published in journals throughout North and South America, the UK, Europe, Australia, and Asia, as well as in books and anthologies published by Crown, Mc-Graw Hill, and Tuttle. She is currently poetry editor of Tiferet: A Journal of Spiritual Literature.

The recipient of various honors and awards, including poetry fellowships from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, her book Migrating Geese (published by Muse-Pie Press in 1987) won a first place Merit Book Award. She has also won a first place Henderson Award and an award for the 2007 Merton Poetry of the Sacred Prize. Adele was a finalist for the 2006 Paumanok Poetry Award, won honorable mention in the 2006 Allen Ginsberg Poetry Awards, and has received several Pushcart Prize nominations. One of her poems appeared on the marquee of the Rialto West Theater in NYC as part of the 42nd Street Art Project, and her book Staffordshire Animals has been cited by Home and Garden Television.

Adele directs the Carriage House Poetry Reading Series, which she founded in 1998 (visit http://carriagehousepoetryseries.blogspot.com), and has been director of the Fanwood Arts Council since 1999. She has been a featured poet at the Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival, and is active as a featured reader in a wide range of venues.

A former professor teaching graduate-level courses in creative writing at the College of New Rochelle (NY), she has also taught satellite courses at Rockland County Community College (NY), and creative writing for the Middlesex County College Division of Community Education (NJ). Her teaching background includes 20 years full-time employment as a secondary-level English and creative writing teacher, and teacher of the gifted and talented. She has worked as a Grants Review Panelist for the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and the Union County Division of Cultural and Heritage Affairs, and has been a guest poet and artist-in-residence for numerous agencies and organizations, including state and county Teen Arts Festivals, the NJ State Department of Education, Symposium for the Arts, and Very Special Arts Festivals (serving the handicapped). She is currently completing her Ph.D. in Theology. Visit Adele electronically at her website: http://home.att.net/~yorkshirehouse/