About CD Collins
Kentucky native CD Collins follows the storytelling traditions of the South, both as a solo artist and when accompanied by musicians. As one of originators of the early ‘90s resurgence of spoken-word with live music, her work has been archived in award-winning compact discs: Kentucky Stories, Subtracting Down and Carousel Lounge.
Collins’ fiction has appeared in numerous literary magazines, including The Drum, StoryQuarterly, Salamander, Phoebe and The Pennsylvania Review. Her collection of poetry, Self-Portrait with Severed Head, was published by Ibbetson Street press in 2009. Her collection of short stories, Blue Land, was released in June 2010.
She has produced a short lyric documentary that chronicles the catastrophic steps of mountaintop removal to retrieve Appalachian coal. She has recently completed a novel and is currently working on a one-woman show. With her band, Rockabetty, she is now recording a new compact disc entitled Clean Coal/Big Lie.
Praise for CD Collins
“Laurie Anderson
meets William Faulkner”
— Stephen McCauley,
novelist
“Poetry +
Music = Magic”
— Hannah Bordas, Bay Windows
“Broad distinctions
of class and a variety of manners
are depicted with a sure hand…genuine
artistic maturity…language
is very good indeed and will always
fetch money from home.”
— James B. Hall, Literary Magazine Review
“CD Collins,
a feisty Kentuckian in black gloves
draped with silver chains, (part
of the) decidedly eclectic crowd
in the Writers’ Room of Boston.”
— Sally Jacobs, The Boston Globe
“Slow, seductive,
teases you, tantalizes you…as
deep and rich as the Kentucky soil
from whence she came… she
melts icy places in even the coldest
heart.”
— The Boston Poet
“Trenchant.”
—Elizabeth McKim, poet
For the press
High-resolution photo of CD Collins & Rockabetty (6.5 MB zipped file).
