Visiting Writer: Laura Kasischke

Laura Kasischke has published eight collections of poetry and eight novels.  She was the recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry for her collection SPACE, IN CHAINS (Copper Canyon Press, 2011).  She has also been the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Rilke Award for Poetry, the Bess Hokin Award from POETRY magazine, and two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts.  She is teaches in the MFA Program and the Residential College at the University of Michigan, from which she graduated.  She lives with her husband and son in Chelsea, Michigan.

More information: www.laurakasischke.com