Keetje Kuipers
Keetje Kuipers is a native of the Northwest She earned a B.A. at Swarthmore College and an M.F.A. at the University of Oregon. She has been the recipient of fellowships from the Vermont Studio Center, Squaw Valley Community of Writers, Oregon Literary Arts, and Soapstone, as well as awards from
Atlanta Review and
Nimrod. In 2007, she completed her tenure as the Margery Davis Boyden Wilderness Writing Resident, which provided her with seven months of solitude in Oregon's Rogue River Valley. She used her time there to complete work on her book,
Beautiful in the Mouth, which was awarded the 2009 A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize and will be published in April 2010 by BOA Editions. It contains poems featured here, as well as poems currently published or forthcoming in
Prairie Schooner,
West Branch,
Painted Bride Quarterly,
Willow Springs, and
AGNI, among others. In the fall of 2009, Keetje will begin as a Stegner Fellow at Stanford. She lives in Missoula, Montana with her labradoodle, Bishop.
Posted on December 24, 2006 6:38 AM
