Kirsten Kaschock

Poet

Philadelphia, PA
Pennsylvania US
Email: 
kkaschock@hotmail.com
Website: 
kirstenkaschock.com
Twitter/X: 
@sleightist

Author's Bio

Kirsten Kaschock is the author of five poetry books and a chapbook: Unfathoms (Slope Editions), A Beautiful Name for a Girl (Ahsahta Press), WindowBoxing (Bloof Books), The Dottery (University of Pittsburgh Press), Confessional Science-fiction: A Primer (Subito Press), and Explain This Corpse (Lynx House Press). Coffee House Press published her debut speculative novel - Sleight. She lives in Baltimore.

Publications & Prizes

Books:
Confessional Science-fiction: A Primer (Subito Press, University of Colorado, Boulder, 2017)
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The Dottery (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2014)
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A Beautiful Name for a Girl (Ahsahta Press, 2011)
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Sleight (Coffee House Press, 2011)
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Unfathoms (Slope Editions, 2004)
Chapbook:
WindowBoxing (Bloof Books, 2012)
Prizes won: 

PEW Individual Artist Fellow 2019

Grand Prize fiction Summer Literary Seminars (SLS) Tbilisi, Georgia - for "Mouths, Filled with Cinnamon"

Subito Poetry Prize - Confessional Science-fiction: A Primer

AWP Donald Hall Prize for Poetry - The Dottery

PA Council on the Arts - poetry fellowship

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Identifies as: 
American
Prefers to work with: 
Any
Fluent in: 
English
Born in: 
Ithaca, NY
New York
Raised in: 
PA
Pennsylvania
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Last update: Nov 14, 2023