Laura Kasischke Explained

Laura Kasischke
Birth Place:Grand Rapids, Michigan, U.S.
Education:Columbia University
University of Michigan (MFA)

Laura Kasischke is an American fiction writer and poet. She is best known for writing the novels Suspicious River, The Life Before Her Eyes and White Bird in a Blizzard, all of which have been adapted to film.

Life and work

She was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan.Kasischke attended the University of Michigan (MFA 1987) and Columbia University.[1] She lives in Chelsea, Michigan, with her husband and son.

She is the Theodore Roethke Distinguished University Professor of English Language and Literature,[2] and of the Residential College at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan.[3]

Kasischke's literary works have been recognized and highlighted at Michigan State University in their Michigan Writers Series.[4]

Her novel The Life Before Her Eyes is the basis for the film of the same name, directed by Vadim Perelman and starring Uma Thurman and Evan Rachel Wood. Kasischke's work is particularly well received in France, where she is widely read in translation. Her novel A moi pour toujours (Be Mine) was published by Christian Bourgois, and was a national best seller.

Her most recent book of poetry, Where Now - New and Selected Poems,[5] was published in 2017 by Copper Canyon Press.

Awards

Kasischke was awarded the 2011 National Book Critics Circle Award in poetry for Space, In Chains.[6] [7] Her work has received the Juniper Prize, the Alice Fay di Castagnola Award from the Poetry Society of America, the Pushcart Prize, the Elmer Holmes Bobst Award for Emerging Writers, and the Beatrice Hawley Award.[8] She is the recipient of two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts. In 2005 she was The Frost Place poet in residence and in 2009 she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in Creative Arts - Poetry[9] She received the 2014 Grand prix des lectrices de Elle.

Bibliography

Poetry

Fiction

Novels

Short story collections

Short stories

width=25%TitleYearFirst publishedReprinted/collected
The barge2011Kasischke, Laura . Summer 2011 . The barge . The Florida Review . 35 . 1&2 . 179–184 . Book: Kasischke, Laura . Henderson . Bill . The Pushcart Prize XXXVII : best of the small presses 2013 . Pushcart Press . 2013 . 340–344 . The barge.
Search continues for elderly man2008Kasischke, Laura . Sep 2008 . [<!--accessdate= --> Search continues for elderly man ]. . 115 . 3 . 57–61 .

Screenplays

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Alice James Books > Author Page > Laura Kasischke.
  2. Web site: Laura Kasischke. University of Michigan. 2013-05-29.
  3. Web site: U-M English MFA Program: Faculty Profile: Laura Kasischke.
  4. Web site: Michigan Writers Series . Michigan State University Libraries . 2012-07-15.
  5. Web site: Where Now: New and Selected Poems by Laura Kasischke.
  6. Web site: Space, in Chains by Laura Kasischke.
  7. Web site: Laura Kasischke Wins NBCC Award by Harriet Staff. Poetry. Foundation. December 26, 2020. Poetry Foundation.
  8. Web site: Alice James Books > Beatrice Hawley Award Winners List. https://web.archive.org/web/20080709040335/http://www.alicejamesbooks.org/winners.html. dead. July 9, 2008.
  9. Web site: Laura Kasischke - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
  10. Web site: The Infinitesimals by Laura Kasischke.

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