Laura Kasischke is the Allan Seager Collegiate Professor of English Language and Literature and a member of the Helen Zell Writers’s Program MFA faculty at the University of Michigan. She has published eight collections of poetry and eight novels. Her novels include Suspicious River (1996), White Bird in a Blizzard (1999), and The Life Before Her Eyes (2002). They have been translated widely, and adapted for film. Kasischke has been the recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Award for poetry, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and two creative writing fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, among many other honors. In this conversation, moderated by fellow HZWP faculty member Douglas Trevor, she will be discussing aspects of process and craft.

UMMA is pleased to be the site for the Zell Visiting Writers Series, which brings outstanding writers each semester. The Series is made possible through a generous gift from U-M alumna Helen Zell (’64).