Complex sentence: Nikky Finney (born Lynn Carol Finney on August 26,1957 in Conway, South Carolina) is an award-winning American poet, and was the Guy Davenport Endowed Professor of English at the University of Kentucky for twenty years.
Split into simpler sentences: Nikky Finney (born Lynn Carol Finney on August 26,1957 in Conway, South Carolina) is an American poet. She was the Guy Davenport Endowed Professor of English at the University of Kentucky for twenty years.