AutoPortrait with Crow–a reading and discussion with Kirsten Kaschock
Come to hear from novelist/poet Kirsten Kaschock as she excavates the paintings and images that have animated her recent work.
Kirsten Kaschock
Kirsten Kaschock is a poet and novelist. AutoPortrait (with flotsam) is her most recent poetry book, published by Tupelo Press. Her background in dance has impacted her work—she consistently addresses intersections between language and body and has earned doctorates in English literature and dance studies. Kaschock has received fellowships from the Pew Foundation, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Vermont Studio Center, Subcircle, and the Summer Literary Seminars in Tbilisi. Her second novel, An Impossibility of Crows, won the Juniper Prize for fiction from University of Massachusetts Press. Her work has been called “gothic and intense,” “as fascinating as it is disturbing,” “inventive and exhilarating.” As Cheryl Strayed once noted: “There isn’t anyone like any single one of us, but the way there is no one like Kirsten Kaschock is a different thing.”
