Julia Spicher Kasdorf

Julia Spicher Kasdorf, Bellefonte, Pa., is liberal arts professor of English at Penn State University, where she directs the Creative Writing Program. She studied at Goshen (Ind.) College and has degrees, including the Ph.D., from New York University. She has written, co-edited or contributed to a number of books, most recently As Is: Poems, reviewed elsewhere in this issue, and Shale Play: Poems and Photographs from the Fracking Fields, a collaboration with photographer and Penn State colleague Steven Rubin (Penn State University Press, 2023 and 2018, respectively), as well as the biography Fixing Tradition: Joseph W. Yoder, Amish American (Herald Press, 2003) and the essay collection The Body and the Book: Writing from a Mennonite Life (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001), which won the Book of the Year award from the Modern Language Association’s Conference on Christianity and Literature.

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