Kathryn Nuernberger @ Assumption University

Kathryn Nuernberger’s latest book is Held: Essays in Belonging, which is about symbiotic mutualisms, climate change, and finding family at the end of the world. She is also the author of The Witch of Eye and the poetry collections, RUE, The End of Pink and Rag & Bone. Her first lyric essay collection, Brief Interviews with the Romantic Past, won the The Journal Non/Fiction Award. Other awards include the James Laughlin Prize from the Academy of American Poets, an NEA fellowship, and notable essays in the Best American series. She is a Professor of Creative Writing in the MFA program at University of Minnesota.