Laura Kasischke

Laura Kasischke is the Theodore Roethke Distinguished University Professor of English Language and Literature in the Department of English, the Helen Zell MFA Program, and in the Residential College.  She received her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Michigan, and her BA from Michigan’s Residential College. She has published nine collections of poetry and eight novels.  She’s received the National Book Critics Circle Award for poetry, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and two grants from the National Endowment for the Arts.  Her novels been translated into twelve languages, and three of them have been made into feature length films, most recently White Bird in a Blizzard, starring Shailene Woodley.  She has received a number of teaching awards from the University of Michigan and the Faculty Award for Distinguished Achievement.