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.
Laura Kasischke | |
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 Kasischke at the National Book Critics Circle Awards, March 2012 | |
| Born | Grand Rapids, Michigan, U.S. |
| Education | Columbia University University of Michigan (MFA) |
| Notable awards | National Book Critics Circle Award |
Life and work
editShe 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
editKasischke 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
editPoetry
edit- Kasischke, Laura (1991). Wild brides. New York UP.
- — (1995). Housekeeping in a dream. Carnegie Mellon University Press.
- Fire and Flower (Alice James Books, 1998)
- What It Wasn't (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2002)
- Dance and Disappear. Univ of Massachusetts Press. 2002. ISBN 978-1-55849-352-0. Retrieved 29 May 2013.
- Gardening in the Dark. AUSABLE Press. 2004. ISBN 978-1-931337-22-9. Retrieved 29 May 2013.
- Lilies Without. Copper Canyon Press. 25 December 2012. ISBN 978-1-61932-072-7. Retrieved 29 May 2013.
- Space, in Chains. COPPER CANYON. 2011. ISBN 978-1-55659-333-8. Retrieved 29 May 2013.
- The Infinitesimals (Copper Canyon Press, 2014) ISBN 1556594666[10]
- Where Now: New and Selected Poems (Copper Canyon Press, 2017) ISBN 9781556595127[5]
Fiction
editNovels
edit- Suspicious River. Houghton Mifflin. 1996.
- White Bird in a Blizzard. Hyperion. 1999. ISBN 978-0-7868-6366-2. Retrieved 29 May 2013.
- The Life Before Her Eyes. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 11 November 2002. ISBN 978-0-547-54145-7. Retrieved 29 May 2013.
- Boy Heaven. HarperCollins. 17 March 2009. ISBN 978-0-06-188057-5. Retrieved 29 May 2013.
- Be Mine (Mariner Books, 2007) ISBN 9780547906843
- Feathered. HarperCollins. 5 May 2009. ISBN 978-0-06-190950-4. Retrieved 29 May 2013.
- In a Perfect World. HarperCollins. 6 October 2009. ISBN 978-0-06-194182-5. Retrieved 29 May 2013.
- Made In Michigan Writers: Eden Springs. Wayne State University Press. 2010. ISBN 978-0-8143-3533-8. Retrieved 29 May 2013.
- The Raising: A Novel. HarperCollins. 15 March 2011. ISBN 978-0-06-204238-5. Retrieved 29 May 2013.
- Mind of Winter. HarperCollins. 25 March 2014. ISBN 978-0-0622-8441-9. Retrieved 10 June 2014.
Short story collections
edit- Kasischke, Laura (2013). If a stranger approaches you : stories. Sarabande Books.
Short stories
edit| Title | Year | First published | Reprinted/collected |
|---|---|---|---|
| The barge | 2011 | Kasischke, Laura (Summer 2011). "The barge". The Florida Review. 35 (1&2): 179–184. | Kasischke, Laura (2013). "The barge". In Henderson, Bill (ed.). The Pushcart Prize XXXVII : best of the small presses 2013. Pushcart Press. pp. 340–344. |
| Search continues for elderly man | 2008 | Kasischke, Laura (Sep 2008). "Search continues for elderly man". F&SF. 115 (3): 57–61. |
Screenplays
editReferences
edit- ^ "Alice James Books > Author Page > Laura Kasischke".
- ^ "Laura Kasischke". University of Michigan. Retrieved 2013-05-29.
- ^ "U-M English MFA Program: Faculty Profile: Laura Kasischke".
- ^ "Michigan Writers Series". Michigan State University Libraries. Retrieved 2012-07-15.
- ^ a b "Where Now: New and Selected Poems by Laura Kasischke".
- ^ "Space, in Chains by Laura Kasischke".
- ^ Foundation, Poetry (December 26, 2020). "Laura Kasischke Wins NBCC Award by Harriet Staff". Poetry Foundation.
- ^ "Alice James Books > Beatrice Hawley Award Winners List". Archived from the original on July 9, 2008.
- ^ "Laura Kasischke - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation".
- ^ "The Infinitesimals by Laura Kasischke".