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Julia Spicher Kasdorf
Associate Professor of English

Contact:
35A Burrowes Building
University Park, PA 16802
Office Phone: 814-865-0025
jmk28@psu.edu

http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/362

Office Hours:
Wednesday 3:30-5:30 and Friday 10-11

Educational History:
BA New York University
MA (creative writing) New York University
PhD New York University

Research Interests:
Poetry; non-fiction; creative writing pedagogy; writers and communities

Awards:
Pushcart Prize (poetry) 2004
Book of the Year Award from MLA's Conference on Christianity and Literature, 2001
The Great Lakes Colleges Award for New Writing, 1993
Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize, 1991

Major Publications:
Fixing Tradition:  Joseph W. Yoder, Amish American (Pandora/US) 2003
The Body and the Book:  Writing from a Mennonite Life (Johns Hopkins) 2002
Eve's Striptease
(U. Pittsburgh) 1998
Sleeping Preacher
(U. Pittsburgh) 1992

Books in Progress:
Broken Land: Poems of Brooklyn
, poetry anthology edited with Michael Tyrell, forthcoming NYU Press

Other Publications:
Poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and numerous anthologies.