Laura Kasischke

Laura Kasischke

Laura Kasischke (b. 1961) is an American fiction writer and poet, with poetry awards and multiple well reviewed works of fiction. 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. 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. She is also currently a Professor of English Language and of the Residential College at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

elected bibliography

Poetry

*"Wild Brides" (1992)
*"Housekeeping in a Dream" (1995)
*"Fire & Flower" (1998)
*"What It Wasn't" (2002)
*"Dance and Disappear" (2002)
*"Gardening in the Dark" (2004)
*"Lilies Without" (2007)

Novels

*"Suspicious River" (1997)
*"White Bird in a Blizzard" (1999)
*"The Life Before Her Eyes" (2002)
*"Boy Heaven" (2007)'
*"Be Mine" (2007)
*"Feathered" (2008)


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