Theodore Roethke Distinguished University Professor: Residential College/Department of English Language and Literature
About
Laura Kasischke has published nine novels—three of which have been made into feature length films (starring Uma Thurman, Evan Rachel Wood, Shailene Woodley, and others) and a prize-winning mini-series. She has also published a collection of short fiction, a novella, and eleven collections of poetry. She has been the recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Rilke Award, The Prix Elle (Best Novel Published in 2014), a Guggenheim Fellowship, The Alain Bousquet Award for Literary Excellence, The Bess Hokin Award and many other national and international awards. Her work has been widely translated and published in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New Republic, Granta, The American Poetry Journal, Oprah Magazine, The Chicago Review, The Yale Review, Best American Poetry, The Norton Anthology, Modern American Poetry, The Penguin Book of the Prose Poem, New American Poets, Helen Vendler's Poems, Poets, Poetry, among many other literary journals and anthologies. She teaches creative writing in the University of Michigan's Residential College and is Theodore Roethke Distinguished University Professor of English.
