Adele Kenny is the author of twenty-three books (poetry & nonfiction) with poems published in journals worldwide, as well as in books and anthologies from Crown, Tuttle, Shambhala, and McGraw-Hill. Her awards include two poetry fellowships from the NJ State Arts Council, and her most recent poetry collection, What Matters, received the 2012 International Book Award for Poetry. Founding director of the Carriage House Poetry Series and poetry editor for Tiferet Journal, she is active in readings and in private and agency-sponsored workshops. She has read in the US, England, Ireland, and France, and has twice been a featured reader at the Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival.

What Matters (Welcome Rain, 2011), Carriage House Poetry Series Anthology (Editor) (Muse-Pie Press, 2008), Staffordshire Figures: History in Earthenware 1740-1900 (Schiffer, 2004), Silent Fire by James Connor (Crown Publishers, 2002), Chosen Ghosts (Muse-Pie Press, 2001), Photographic Cases (Schiffer, 2001), Staffordshire Animals (Schiffer, 1998), At the Edge of the Woods (Yorkshire House Books/Muse-Pie Press, 1997), Staffordshire Spaniels (Schiffer, 1997), Castles and Dragons (Muse-Pie Press, 1990), Questi Momenti (Muse-Pie Press, 1990), Starship Earth (Press Here, 1990)

Chapbooks: A Historical Perspective (Muse-Pie Press, 2008), The Kite & Other Poems from Childhood (Finishing Line Press, 2008)

Sprindrift, Whitman Festival Anthology (Northwind Publishing, 2006), Road to the Interior (Charles E. Tuttle, 1997)

Black Swan Review, Blueline, California Quarterly, Edison Literary Review, Eleven, Exit 13, Home Planet News, IthacaLit, Journal of New Jersey Poets, Kean Review, Lips, Modern Haiku, Paterson Literary Review, Prophetic Voices, Pudding Magazine, Sing Heavenly Muse!, The Merton Seasonal: A Quarterly Review, Tiferet: A Journal of Spiritual Literature, U.S. 1, Wind