Laura Kasischke

Jérome Bonnet

Laura Kasischke is the author of nine collections of poetry and seven novels. Her work has received many honors, including the Pushcart Prize, the Juniper Prize for Poetry, the Rilke Prize, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her long-awaited Where Now: New and Selected Poems was published in 2017. She lives in Chelsea, Michigan, with her son and teaches at the University of Michigan MFA program in Ann Arbor.

Awards and Honors

National Book Critics Circle Award

John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship

Juniper Prize for Poetry

Pushcart Prize

Alice Fay di Castagnola Award

Elmer Holmes Bobst Award for Emerging Writers

Alice James Award (formerly the Beatrice Hawley Award)

UNT Rilke Prize

National Endowment of the Arts Literature Fellowship