Laura Kasischke
Kasischke at theNational 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

Laura Kasischke is an American fiction writer andpoet. She is best known for writing the novelsSuspicious River,The Life Before Her Eyes andWhite Bird in a Blizzard, all of which have been adapted to film.

She was born inGrand Rapids, Michigan.Kasischke attended theUniversity of Michigan (MFA 1987) and Columbia University.^[1] She lives inChelsea, Michigan, with her husband and son.

She is the Theodore Roethke Distinguished University Professor of English Language and Literature,^[2] and of theResidential College at the University of Michigan inAnn Arbor, Michigan.^[3]

Kasischke's literary works have been recognized and highlighted atMichigan State University in their Michigan Writers Series.^[4]

Her novelThe Life Before Her Eyes is the basis for thefilm of the same name, directed byVadim Perelman and starringUma Thurman andEvan Rachel Wood. Kasischke's work is particularly well received in France, where she is widely read in translation. Her novelA 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, was published in 2017 byCopper Canyon Press.^[5]

Kasischke was awarded the 2011National Book Critics Circle Award in poetry forSpace, In Chains.^[6][7] Her work has received the Juniper Prize, the Alice Fay di Castagnola Award from thePoetry Society of America, thePushcart Prize, the Elmer Holmes Bobst Award for Emerging Writers, and theBeatrice Hawley Award.^[8] She is the recipient of two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts. In 2005 she wasThe Frost Place poet in residence and in 2009 she was awarded aGuggenheim Fellowship in Creative Arts - Poetry^[9]She received the 2014Grand prix des lectrices de Elle.

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• 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. Retrieved29 May 2013.
• Gardening in the Dark. Ausable Press. 2004.ISBN 978-1-931337-22-9. Retrieved29 May 2013.
• Lilies Without. Copper Canyon Press. 25 December 2012.ISBN 978-1-61932-072-7. Retrieved29 May 2013.
• Space, in Chains.Copper Canyon Press. 2011.ISBN 978-1-55659-333-8. Retrieved29 May 2013.
• The Infinitesimals (Copper Canyon Press, 2014)ISBN 1556594666^[10]
• Where Now: New and Selected Poems (Copper Canyon Press, 2017)ISBN 9781556595127^[5]

• Suspicious River. Houghton Mifflin. 1996.
• White Bird in a Blizzard. Hyperion. 1999.ISBN 978-0-7868-6366-2. Retrieved29 May 2013.
• The Life Before Her Eyes. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 11 November 2002.ISBN 978-0-547-54145-7. Retrieved29 May 2013.
• Boy Heaven. HarperCollins. 17 March 2009.ISBN 978-0-06-188057-5. Retrieved29 May 2013.
• Be Mine (Mariner Books, 2007)ISBN 9780547906843
• Feathered. HarperCollins. 5 May 2009.ISBN 978-0-06-190950-4. Retrieved29 May 2013.
• In a Perfect World. HarperCollins. 6 October 2009.ISBN 978-0-06-194182-5. Retrieved29 May 2013.
• Made In Michigan Writers: Eden Springs. Wayne State University Press. 2010.ISBN 978-0-8143-3533-8. Retrieved29 May 2013.
• The Raising: A Novel. HarperCollins. 15 March 2011.ISBN 978-0-06-204238-5. Retrieved29 May 2013.
• Mind of Winter. HarperCollins. 25 March 2014.ISBN 978-0-0622-8441-9. Retrieved10 June 2014.

• Kasischke, Laura (2013).If a stranger approaches you : stories. Sarabande Books.

• Suspicious River

• The Writer's Almanac with Garrison Keillor > Bike Ride with Older Boys by Laura Kasischke
• Boston Review > Review by Stephen Burt ofLilies Without by Laura Kasischke
• The Iowa Review > Laura Kasischke >Zeus
• Laura Kasischke: Poetry Foundation > Author

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